Better Than Welfare? —— Work And Livelihoods For Indigenous Australians After Cdep

----- 福利更好?原住民的工作与生计

ISBN: 9781760460273 出版年：2016 页码：282 Jordan, Kirrily ANU Press

The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. More recently, it had also become a focus of intense political contestation that culminated in its ultimate demise. This book examines the consequences of its closure for Indigenous people, communities and organisations. The end of CDEP is first situated in its broader historical and political context: the debates over notions of %’®ielf-determination%’?versus %’¤iainstreaming%’?and the enduring influence of concerns about %’©iassive welfare%’?and %’¤iutual obligation%’? In this way, the focus on CDEP highlig