lee wrote on Mar 18
th, 2017 at 12:22pm:
mothra wrote on Mar 18
th, 2017 at 12:16pm:
What special treatment do Aboriginal people get?
The right to live in remote communities that are not viable and too remote to drive to and from work each day.
Only Aboriginal people live remotley?
Anyway, you missed this part of the OP. I don't blame you. Prejudice is hard to fight.
"Today, there are some Indigenous people in Australia who are required to work a minimum 46 weeks a year for the Government with no leave entitlements and no superannuation, and are paid a significant portion of their wages on a card that can only be spent in certain stores and on certain wages.
The Community Deveopment Programme (CDP), an Government employment service for people living in remote areas, has been criticised in a recent Jobs Australia report as being overly complicated and having not enough community buy in. There are also concerns that the system makes reaching the requirements difficult and with too many financial penalties. For example, a participant can lose up to 10 per cent of their fortnightly pay-per-day for non-compliance. The CDP has been further criticised for applying penalties more frequently than comparable non-remote programs.
A recent report completed for Jobs Australia by ANU researcher, Lisa Fowkes, points out that, “There are approximately 34,000 job seekers in CDP, compared to around 760,000 in jobactive – it is less than 1/20th the size of the larger program."