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Download fileDeconstructing Community Development Employment Projects: a "revolution" in indigenous employment policy (1997-2009)
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posted on 2022-03-28, 00:54 authored by David CoombsBuilding on the research of William Sanders (2008; 2010), this thesis argues that a fundamental change in the way the Federal Government approached Indigenous affairs occurred over the period 1997-2009. The systematic way in which the government undermined and then abolished the Community Development Employment Projects scheme (CDEP) supports this contention. The incommensurable nature of the causal stories and problem representations of CDEP that appear in the parliamentary debates of 1977 compared with those from 2007 is used as evidence of an ideological transformation in Indigenous affairs public policy. Although Hall’s (1993) concept of the policy paradigm shift evokes the sense of dramatic change that the Howard years entailed, Streeck and Thelen’s (2005) institutional layering explains the process of change in a more theoretically convincing way. This is demonstrated by the gradual yet revolutionary process in which CDEP was subsumed by Work for the Dole. The original contribution of this thesis is found in its application of theories of the policy process and policy change to the Australian Indigenous affairs context.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction -- II. Literature review -- III. Self-determination and the inception of CDEP -- IV. The expansion of CDEP and the introduction of Work for the Dole 1983-2009 -- V. The NTER and the unravelling of CDEP -- Conclusion.Notes
Theoretical thesis. Bibliography: pages 85-91Awarding Institution
Macquarie UniversityDegree Type
Thesis MResDegree
MRes, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern History, Politics and International RelationsDepartment, Centre or School
Department of Modern History, Politics and International RelationsYear of Award
2015Principal Supervisor
Diana PercheRights
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EnglishJurisdiction
AustraliaExtent
1 online resource (91 pages)Former Identifiers
mq:45257 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1076158Usage metrics
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work for the doleAboriginal AustraliansCDEPAboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia -- Historypublic policyinstitutional layeringAboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- HistoryIndigenous employmentAboriginal Australians -- Employment -- Australia -- Historycausal storiesIndigenous affairs