</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"> Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP). .Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) provide employment for Indigenous people in a wide range of community projects and enterprises, and allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to take control of their own communities' economic and social development. . .. .Now the Commonwealth’s largest Indigenous program, CDEP began in 1977 at the request of a number of remote communities who wanted an alternative to continued reliance on unemployment benefits. In 1984 it was expanded to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in rural and urban areas.. .. .The new CDEP objective, endorsed after a 1997 review, is: ‘To provide work for unemployed Indigenous persons in community-managed activities which assist the individual in acquiring skills which benefit the community, develop business enterprises and/or lead to unsubsidised employment.". .. .Description: ATSIC provides a grant to a community or organisation for them to undertake community-managed activities and pay wages to workers. CDEP organisations managing projects also receive amounts to cover the costs of administration and capital items. . .. .The CDEP scheme is led by the communities and participants involved. Any activity that benefits the community can be a CDEP activity; these range from community maintenance to land management to the development of businesses to cultural or sporting activities. (ATSIC Website) </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">... The line, "To provide work for unemployed Indigenous persons in community-managed activities which assist the individual in acquiring skills which benefit the community..." says much...But only if it's true!. .. .No-one has ever cleared up whether the airline actually was or more importantly is working under this or not.