Basic Income and Cultural Participation for Remote-Living Indigenous Australians

Jon Altman; Francis Markham

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7

Basic Income and Cultural Participation for Remote-Living Indigenous Australians

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In much of remote Australia where a sizable minority of Indigenous people live, labour markets are able to employ only a small fraction of the working-age Indigenous population, a legacy of Australias settler-colonial past and present. In this chapter, we do two things. First, we describe the former Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme as a basic-income-like programme. Using survey data from 20022003 to 20142015, we examine the impact of the abolition of the CDEP as a proxy for a future basic income scheme on cultural participation. We find that the existence of CDEP was associated with a modest increase in cultural participation, especially in attendance of sporting carnivals. Second, we argue for the implementation of a true basic income scheme in remote Australia as a first priority for a staged programme nationally.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward
Editors	Elise Klein, Jennifer Mays & Tim Dunlop
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	87-109
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-14378-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Basic Income and Cultural Participation for Remote-Living Indigenous Australians. / Altman, Jon ; Markham, Francis.
Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward. ed. / Elise Klein, Jennifer Mays & Tim Dunlop. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 87-109.

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