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Greens vow to overhaul job services and abolish mutual obligations
This morning the Greens will launch their policy to overhaul job services by eliminating for-profit providers from the employment services system, restoring the Commonwealth Employment Services, abolishing mutual obligations and hiring more staff to bring call wait times to Centrelink to under five minutes.
The privatised employment service system is costly, ineffective and cruel. It makes it harder for people to look for and find work, while enriching for-profit providers, many of whom have demonstrated a callous indifference to the well-being of the people they’re meant to help.
Mutual obligations are not only cruel, they’re completely dysfunctional. Multiple ongoing technology issues have rendered the system almost inoperable, while information that’s recently come to light raises serious questions about the legality of the whole scheme.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/25/australia-news-live-labor-election-campaign-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-cost-of-living-mobile-coverage-ntwnfb
Author : Emily Wind
Publish date : 2025-02-24 19:55:00
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