Australia’s broken employment services system needs public provider, parliamentary review finds
by Cait Kelly from World news | The Guardian on (#6GRVF)
Parliamentary inquiry established by Albanese government declares full marketisation' of $9.5bn system has failed'
The decades-long full privatisation of Australia's employment services system has failed, according to a parliamentary review ordered by the Albanese government that has urged Labor to re-establish a commonwealth job agency and overhaul the mutual obligations regime.
A damning review of the Workforce Australia system also called for the government to create a watchdog - as exists in disability and aged care - to monitor the mammoth job services system and recommended the axing of a costly privatised training program.
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