The Indigenous welfare economy and the CDEP scheme / edited by F. Morphy and W. G. Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morphy, Frances, editor.

Sanders, W. G., editor.

Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

Series:

Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; Number 20.

Research Monograph. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) ; Number 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community Development Employment Projects (Australia).

Aboriginal Australians--Employment.

Aboriginal Australians.

Community development--Australia.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent debates about the Indigenous welfare economy, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme has not been given the attention it deserves. It represents a major adaptation of the Australian welfare system to the particular social and economic circumstances of Indigenous people. Part I of this volume contains overview papers which place the CDEP program in its wider cultural, sociopolitical, and economic contexts. The contributions in Part II address policy and policy-related issues which impact directly, or indirectly, on the structure and function of the CDEP scheme as a whole and of individual CDEP projects. Part III presents research based case-studies of particular CDEP projects in their regional contexts, drawn from the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Victoria. Part IV consists of short case studies, from the perspective of the participants themselves, of a number of CDEP organisations. These case studies provide an important perspective, taking up and providing a grass-roots view of many of the broader policy themes and concerns that are discussed elsewhere in the monograph. The crucial issue, addressed by many of the contributions, is how Indigenous self determination and the rights agenda, which argues for the unique and inherent rights of Indigenous Australians, will sit with (or in opposition to) the 'mutual obligation' of the Howard government's welfare reform. The volume thus represents a contribution to an ongoing and important debate in current Australian social policy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 25, 2017).

ISBN:

9780975122938

0975122932