Media spotlight on employment services
We are collecting examples of job agency abuse and related news media. If you have a story to add, please send it to us here.
‘It isn’t working’: the government’s Workforce Australia launch derailed by outages and errors
5 July 2022, Crikey, Cam Wilson. Access the full article here. Australians who risk losing…
Podcast: Job seekers sent to body language courses for job agents to profit
1 September 2022, Guardian Australia, Presented by Laura Murphy-Oates and Reported by Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access…
ParentsNext program is ‘absolute scandal’
2 November 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. One woman’s payments…
Australia’s billion-dollar welfare-to-work system gave recipients fake CVs — with people’s real details
15 February 2023, Crikey, Cam Wilson. Access the full article here. One person whose number…
Job agency makes money sending unemployed to course agency made
3 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Employability course created…
Mutual obligations: Howard’s legacy lives on
1 January 2022, Guardian Australia, Anne Davies. Access the full article here. Cabinet papers 2001: government…
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Mutual obligations: Howard’s legacy lives on
1 January 2022, Guardian Australia, Anne Davies. Access the full article here. Cabinet papers 2001: government also opposed apology to stolen generations ‘given that the practices were at the time believed to be in the best interests of the children’ The 2001 cabinet papers provide more…
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ParentsNext program is morally reprehensible
24 December 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Human Rights Commission says aspects of ParentsNext program have the ‘effect of penalising parents, overwhelmingly mothers’ Job agencies running the contentious ParentsNext program have called on the Albanese government to scrap compliance from the scheme,…
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Some unemployed miss out on break from mutual obligations
21 December 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Anomaly in dates of suspension means individuals whose reporting date falls after 2 January treated different to others Welfare activists have criticised an anomaly that will see some jobseekers forced to complete mutual…
Employment services survey
The Punishment for Profit report is based on hundreds of responses to surveys conducted by the Antipoverty Centre. This research is ongoing. If you are in Workforce Australia, Disability Employment Services or a similar program, we welcome any information you are able to share about your experiences.