“…The CDP has caused widespread harm, mainly due to dramatic increases in non-compliance penalty rates, which have further reduced already very low unemployment benefits (DPM&C, 2018; Jordan & Fowkes, 2016; Markham & Altman, 2019). There are frequent reports of CDP participants and their dependents going without food, struggling with housing payments, and experiencing generally poorer health and wellbeing (Jordan & Fowkes, 2016; Staines, 2018; Staines et al, 2021). The CDP has also disrupted forms of productive work that are important to maintaining wellbeing, such as care work, including caring for people, Country, culture, and community (Dudgeon et al, 2014; Gee et al, 2014; Staines, 2018; Staines et al, 2021; Yap & Yu, 2016).…”