There are misleading, nonsensical and outright false claims regarding the CDP. The government’s reforms are increasing the role of CDP to drive economic participation in remote Indigenous communities. [Read more…]
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It’s the economy, stupid.
The problem for remote Indigenous communities isn’t remoteness. It’s lack of economic participation by the people who live in them. Social breakdown is inevitable when families don’t participate in the real economy for generations, whether their community has 300 or 3 million people. [Read more…]
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Posted by on March 15, 2018
Creating job opportunities for Indigenous Australians
The critical question isn’t how to create more job opportunities for Indigenous people but how they take up the opportunities already there. [Read more…]
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Posted by on November 3, 2016
If you care about poverty, support welfare to work
No government, organisation or person who claims to care about inequality can stand by and accept people languishing in poverty and disadvantage. And that’s what welfare dependence is. [Read more…]
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Posted by on October 27, 2016
Welfare is state sponsored disadvantage
Everyone who depends on welfare is living in poverty. Poverty isn’t alleviated by giving people money. Poverty is alleviated by people making money; by economic development driven by jobs, education and innovation.
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Posted by on September 5, 2016
Closing the Gap – It’s the economy, stupid
We need an economic strategy for Indigenous people built around an educated workforce, employment in real jobs & small business entrepreneurialism. Not around welfare & government dependency. [Read more…]
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Posted by on February 10, 2016
The welfare poverty net
Poverty comes in different forms and degrees. But the solutions to poverty, of any kind, are the same – education and employment. [Read more…]
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Posted by on November 17, 2014