Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 16
th, 2022 at 6:04pm:
"Instead of being a transition to real work, CDEP is an obstacle to employment. Only around
5% of CDEP participants move to mainstream jobs.
At last you read the CIS report on the CDEP...but can you see the problem?
"Instead of being a transition to real work, CDEP is an obstacle to employment" The CIS are making the ideological mistake (based on
neoliberal market ideology) of conflating "real work", and "employment" in the competitive neoliberal job market, rather than in a non-competitive government-supported job market.
Quote:CDEP payments are combined with other forms of income assistance such as Newstart
Allowance and Parenting Payment. A single mother with six children receiving CDEP for home
duties plus welfare can receive nearly $2,000 a fortnight. These payments create a ‘welfare pedestal’
which prevents participants from considering study, training, or work opportunities.
Participants are paid for doing housework, mowing their own lawns, attending funerals, and
for doing nothing at all. Consequently, Indigenous people regard CDEP pay contemptuously as
‘sit down’ money.
If CDEP is excluded from employment figures, after thirty years of the CDEP program,
the percentage of Indigenous people in ‘real’ employment in ghetto, fringe, and remote areas is
only 17%.
CDEP has hidden the crisis in Indigenous education. CDEP participants do not need to know
how to read and write, and CDEP training does not qualify them for mainstream jobs. So-called
vocational certificates are awarded to participants unable to read, write, or count.
Most Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, even in remote areas, are located within commuting
distance of work in retail, tourism, agriculture, and mining. They cannot access these jobs because
they are not literate or numerate, and lack post-school vocational training".
[url]http://www.cis.gov.au > uploads > 2015/07[/url]
That's a biased, ideological view of the CDEP.
eg
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prevents participants from considering study,"
if a single mother has 6 kids, who is going to care for them, while she studies ...eg, home care?
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Participants are paid for doing housework, mowing their own lawns, attending funerals, and
for doing nothing at all".
The last 2 comment are gratuitous nonsense; but caring for homes is real continuous work.
"If CDEP is excluded from employment figures, after thirty years of the CDEP program,
the percentage of Indigenous people in ‘real’ employment in ghetto, fringe, and remote areas is
only 17%".ghettos aren't known as a source of competitive neoliberal job-market jobs.
"CDEP has hidden the crisis in Indigenous education. CDEP participants do not need to know
how to read and write, and CDEP training does not qualify them for mainstream jobsAnd so the crisis in Indigenous education must be addressed. The CIS don't explain how.
"So-called vocational certificates are awarded to participants unable to read, write, or count.
Most Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, even in remote areas, are located within commuting
distance of work in retail, tourism, agriculture, and mining. They cannot access these jobs because
they are not literate or numerate, and lack post-school vocational training". ..and these CIS frauds don't explain who is going to pay for literacy and numeracy classes, and who is going to pay travel expenses to mine sites, etc.
and the fact that white workers will get the jobs in retail, tourism, agriculture, so long as literacy and numeracy remain low among blacks.
You will note point 10 in the CIS report which acknowledges the NATSISS stats showing reduction in alcoholism and crime.
The fact remains, we have to decrease social dysfunction in the communities, by enabling people to do something - anything - useful, during a transition to more functional communities, before we can proceed with numeracy and literacy classes which require functional environments.
Otherwise the torment will continue.
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