Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: Social disadvantage under the community development programme
Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: Social disadvantage under the community development programme Journal Article
The Journal of Australian Political Economy
- Author(s): Zoe, Staines
- Published: 2018
- Volume: 82
Abstract: Indigenous Australians continue to experience significant socio-economic disadvantage across the life course (PMC 2018a; Productivity Commission 2016). This includes comparatively low labour-force participation and employment rates, especially in remote communities. Un- and under-employment can serve to further compound disadvantage by reducing household income, which has negative flow-on effects for access to basic needs like food, education and healthcare. Successive Australian governments have responded by delivering community development and employment programmes, the most recent of which is now in its third year of operation.