The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) is a scheme where working age Indigenous people forgo their welfare payments to take up employment in their local Aboriginal community organisation. This case study discusses a corporate or regional CEDP scheme called Worn Gundidj, located in Warrnambool, Victoria. Attitudes of participants and staff towards CDEP, the work programs...

This profile of the relative social and economic status of Indigenous people in Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett in New South Wales was prepared to inform discussions which will explore solutions to pressing social and economic problems facing Indigenous communities in these three towns. The focus is on those aspects of social and economic life in...

This paper by J.C. Altman examines the economic status of Indigenous Australians as a self-identifying group. It is an early version of an entry to the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of the Australian People, published in 2001.

The lack of adequate services and facilities in rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities has rightly received a great deal of attention in recent years and, while marked improvements have been made, housing and infrastructure developments still fall far short of the standards experienced by other Australians. A major initiative of the...