Prof Jon Altman joins us from Melbourne, where he is a research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.
He talks to Amy McQuire about the Community Development Program (CDP). A bill aiming to experiment with a new form of the CDP in four trial sites has been introduced to parliament. But, as Prof Altman explains, there are real problems with the CDP, which is purporting to paint over the cracks left in the wake of the abolition of CDEP.
As he wrote recently in Land Rights News: “The rapid churn in experimental approaches in the last decade have left those Indigenous people participating in employment programs, the so-called ‘providers’ administrating programs, and analysts looking to evaluate their effectiveness, including the well-resourced and powerful Productivity Commission, somewhat confused.”
For more on Prof Altman’s writings, including his work around a Basic Income – click here.