The source who leaked the documents says the program amounted to “Black robodebt”. They said the implementation and administration of the Community Development Program was “the same scale as robodebt ... but for Aboriginal people” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... - ThreadSky

asherwolf.bsky.social • 5 days ago

The source who leaked the documents says the program amounted to “Black robodebt”. They said the implementation and administration of the Community Development Program was “the same scale as robodebt ... but for Aboriginal people”

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2025/03/22/exclusive-leaked-report-shows-warnings-over-black-robodebt

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asherwolf.bsky.social•5 days ago

“The CDP implemented a regime of mutual obligations and work-for-the-dole schemes in remote communities. Although it was claimed not to be exclusively for Indigenous people, 86 per cent of participants in 2023 were Indigenous”

asherwolf.bsky.social•5 days ago

From my perspective: Indigenous ppl got hit with Robodebt *and* the CDP. Both were bad. Indigenous ppl haven’t had equitable access to justice in either case

ajsadauskas.bsky.social•5 days ago

Robodebt and the CDP. And the cashless welfare card.

For the children of Howard's NT Intervention (which began in 2007), who are in their 20s and 30s now.

Also Don Dale Youth Detention Centre is still open.

And even a constitutionally-mandated ATSIC was a bridge too far for white Australia.

noticingclimate.bsky.social•5 days ago

🚨THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT🚨
“The CDP is causing people to go hungry, costs more than any comparable program and does not achieve its stated goals. The creation and pig-headed defence of this disastrous policy by THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT has done lasting damage to countless remote communities"

matchingpegs.bsky.social•5 days ago

These coalition ghouls should never be allowed to form government again. Absolute black hearted bastards.

ttlyovrit.bsky.social•5 days ago

Asher, did you read about the success of the new jobs trial in Ngaangyatjarraku? Let me find the link?

ttlyovrit.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ttlyovrit.bsky.social/post/3lkf7m2wrtk2s

iantho.bsky.social•5 days ago

Best story I heard about community gardens was improved nutrition for kids. There was a challenge in ‘stealing ‘ fruit and veg and if the product was so valuable it was locked in it must be good so they ate it. Might be apocryphal.

ttlyovrit.bsky.social•5 days ago

I could take 4 x 3kg bags of oranges to Balgo and start handing them out to the kids, and I'd hands down be the most popular person in town for a week.

iantho.bsky.social•5 days ago

Citrus would do ok in that loamy soil too I suspect

ttlyovrit.bsky.social•5 days ago

This honestly does not surprise me in the slightest.

tastromo.bsky.social•4 days ago

The LNP is a terrorist organisation

The sooner we can get most people to understand this, the better

thatoldbear.bsky.social•4 days ago

We need the death penalty back just for white collar crimes like this. This stinks of institutions incapable of learning a single goddamned lesson

cheekycocky.bsky.social•5 days ago

I reckon there’s a few monsters in the Duopoly who should be personally liable for the tort of misfeasance in public office.

Sue them all and strip their assets.

maconnolly888.bsky.social•5 days ago

Morrison really is the biggest cnut in a host of cnuts!

simmimanya.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Punishing the poor. Punishing the Black. Punishing the remote. Punishing the relatively powerless,” he says. “And to what end?”

simmimanya.bsky.social•5 days ago

‘A leaked 2024 auditor-general preparation paper, obtained by The Saturday Paper, reveals that successive government ministers and senior bureaucrats were repeatedly advised that the Community Development Program was likely unlawful but did not stop it.’

3wombats.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nasty evil people

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