TY - JOUR
T1 - Coombs' Bastard Child
T2 - The Troubled Life of CDEP
AU - Sanders, Will
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part-time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous-specific programs Australia has seen, the Community Development Employment Projects scheme. The birth was not easy and neither has been the subsequent life of what I have called, with great licence, Coombs' bastard child.
AB - In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part-time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous-specific programs Australia has seen, the Community Development Employment Projects scheme. The birth was not easy and neither has been the subsequent life of what I have called, with great licence, Coombs' bastard child.
KW - Generational moral structure
KW - Geographic and intra-governmental dimensions
KW - Indigenous employment program
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871677938&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8500.12000
DO - 10.1111/1467-8500.12000
M3 - Article
SN - 0313-6647
VL - 71
SP - 371
EP - 391
JO - Australian Journal of Public Administration
JF - Australian Journal of Public Administration
IS - 4
ER -