CDEP hides social breakdown: leader
Natasha Robinson; 1/5/08
The Community Development Employment Project is a failed experiment that has masked social dysfunction and chronic unemployment among Aborigines in remote communities. Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth said yesterday the Aboriginal work-for-the-dole scheme, which was supposed to offer a transition from welfare to work, had been a panacea for governments intent on massaging statistics to hide the real state of social breakdown in Aboriginal communities. The CDEP had also stymied economic development in remote Northern Territory communities, said the former Central Land Council director who is now an adviser to Territory miner Compass Resources.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23625734-5013404,00.html
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Human Rights, Welfare