The rebranded remote jobs program will be launched on Wednesday in the remote island community of Milingimbi by Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion.
The Community Development Program (CDP) marks a move away from the unpopular Remote Jobs and Community Program, under which about 60 per cent of participants were abandoned, and the minister has promised to re-engage those people with a program offering greater flexibility and transparency.
Mr Scullion has said he sees the program more as "part-time jobs for part-time pay" rather than a work for the dole-type arrangement.
About 30,000 people in remote Australia, about 85 per cent of them indigenous, will be required to work 25 hours a week to receive their welfare payment under the CDP, but they will have more choice in their employment, a wider choice of work and flexible leave, including six weeks of holidays over the summer and 10 days of cultural leave a year.
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