Reframed as welfare: CDEP’s fall from favour
Reframed as welfare: CDEP’s fall from favour Book Section
Better than welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP
- Author(s): Sanders, Will
- Secondary Author(s): Jordan, Kirrily
- Published: 2016
- Publisher: CAEPR
- ISBN: 9781760460273 (pbk)
Abstract: Discussion of welfare and work for Indigenous Australians leads quickly to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme. Introduced by the Fraser Coalition Government in 1977, CDEP was both a response and an alternative to increasing eligibility for social security unemployment payments among Indigenous people in remote areas. The idea was to make grants to Indigenous community organisations to employ community members part-time who would otherwise be eligible for unemployment benefits. How is it that an employment program designed to avoid Indigenous reliance on social security payments in 1977 became reframed as part of the welfare system 32 years later? How does a popular and successful solution to a significant public policy problem come, over time, to be seen as part of that problem? These questions are explored under the following headings: Legislative recognition and complaints of discrimination; Administrative inclusion alongside Work for the Dole; Employment in and out of CDEP: ATSIC's balancing act after Spicer; DEWR's contractualism and employment service model; Pearson's 2007 reversal and the Northern Territory Intervention; Equalising CDEP and income support: FaHCSIA's contribution; From CDEP to RJCP: Service integration and reframing confirmed. Edited excerpts from publication.
- Urls: http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2019/pdf/ch02.pdf
- Publisher Location: Acton
- Database Name: VOCEDplus
- Keywords: Employment creation, History, Labour market program, Community development, Labour force participation, Government role, Government policy, Indigenous people, Employment, Outcomes, Culture and society, Participation, Governance, Australia, Oceania