Looking for 'real jobs' on the APY Lands: Intermittent and steady employment in CDEP and other paid work

Kirrily Jordan

doi:10.22459/CAEPR36.08.2016.05

Looking for 'real jobs' on the APY Lands: Intermittent and steady employment in CDEP and other paid work

Kirrily Jordan

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The principal justification for restructuring the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme over the last 10Â years, and eventually abandoning it, has been an argument that the availability of CDEP work has prevented the take-up of more favourable real jobs. This chapter draws on evidence from the remote Aá¹‰angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far north of South Australia to argue that a binary distinction between CDEP and real jobs is a fiction. This has important implications not just as a critique of past policy decisions, but also for designing future strategies to sustainably improve livelihoods for remote-living Aá¹‰angu where recent policy directions are falling short.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Better Than Welfare? Work and Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians After CDEP
Editors	Kirrily Jordan
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	125-154
Volume	1
Edition	First
ISBN (Print)	9781760460280
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22459/CAEPR36.08.2016.05
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Looking for 'real jobs' on the APY Lands: Intermittent and steady employment in CDEP and other paid work. / Jordan, Kirrily.
Better Than Welfare? Work and Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians After CDEP. ed. / Kirrily Jordan. Vol. 1 First. ed. Canberra: ANU Press, 2016. p. 125-154.

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