Better Than Welfare?: Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP

by Kirrily Jordan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760460273
• ISBN13: 9781760460273
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"