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The '''Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)''' was an initiative by the [[Australian Government]] for the employment of [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)|url=http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/services/cdep.htm|publisher=Centrelink.gov.au|accessdate=20 May 2012}}</ref> It provided a flexible basic income support.<ref name=lrn>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nlc.org.au/uploads/pdfs/LRN-April-2017-WEB.pdf|workjournal=Land Rights News (Northern Edition)|publisher=Northern Land Council|date=April 2017|issue=2|title=When Homelands Were Celebrated|first=Jon|last=Altman|access-date=16 August 2020|pppages=9–11}}</ref>

One way in which the CDEP funds, along with those of another federal government program, the Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP), were deployed was via the [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission]] (ATSIC) to [[Outstation (Aboriginal community)|outstations]] (tiny, remote communities, also known as homelands) across the [[Northern Territory]], until ATSIC was dismantled by the [[Howard government]] in 2004. Then CDEP was transferred to the [[Department of Employment and Workplace Relations]], which made it much harder to access by outstation residents.<ref name=palmer>{{cite book | editor-last1=Peterson | editor-first1=Nicolas | editor-last2=Myers | editor-first2=Fred | title=Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia| website=ANU Press | chapter=10. Homelands as outstations of public policy|first1=Kingsley|last1= Palmer | url=http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p331981/html/ch10.xhtml|series= Monographs in Anthropology|isbn=9781925022902|date=January 2016|publisher=ANU Press| access-date=16 August 2020|ppage=186}}</ref>

On 23 July 2007, during the [[Northern Territory National Emergency Response]] ("the Intervention"), the Howard government announced the abolition of the CDEP scheme in the [[Northern Territory]]. The scheme had an estimated 7,500 participants. The Government planned to progressively abolish projects in urban areas of Australia by July 2009, and in remote areas by July 2011.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}