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My Life as I Live It (1993)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip CDEP

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

In their office, Dallas Skuthorpe and Essie speak about the benefits of CDEP for the Brewarrina community. They travel to a big old shed, where people are working on projects, teaching and being trained.

Curator’s notes

The governments of the day would do well to watch this film – they could all learn something about the consultative process! The CDEP, discarded by the Federal Liberal-Coalition Government in 2006, was reinstated by Labor after it returned to power in 2007.