Discussion paper: Remote employment and participation

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s discussion paper on possible new employment and participation models for remote Australia was released on 14 December 2017. The paper has been released to continue the discussion on what a new model could look like.

This paper outlines three potential remote employment and participation model options: a new wage-based model, the CDP Reform Bill from 2015 and an improved version of current Community Development Programme (CDP).

Submissions to the remote employment and participation discussion paper closed at 5:00pm (EST) Friday 23 February 2018. Submissions are no longer being accepted.

Submissions have now been published in full, unless a submission was marked as confidential or an author subsequently requested it not be published.