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Earlier this year a scathing Senate report said the Jobactive scheme â the governmentâs employment service â had unleashed a âbureaucratic nightmareâ on jobseekers.
Welfare groups said out-of-work Australians were âsufferingâ under the Coalitionâs $7.3bn program, which has its roots in the Howard governmentâs outsourcing of employment services in 1998.
Since then the system has grown and evolved into a network of 1,700 providers across Australia, with companies competing for public money and the right to triage some 750,000 unemployed people on Newstart into a series of government schemes with questionable outcomes such as Work for the Dole, ParentsNext and the PaTh Program.
Guardian Australia spoke to six people about their experiences dealing with Jobactive providers.
The nightmare of Australia's welfare system: 'At the push of a button, my working life was erased'
That's a nightmare.
Welfare groups said out-of-work Australians were âsufferingâ under the Coalitionâs $7.3bn program, which has its roots in the Howard governmentâs outsourcing of employment services in 1998.
Since then the system has grown and evolved into a network of 1,700 providers across Australia, with companies competing for public money and the right to triage some 750,000 unemployed people on Newstart into a series of government schemes with questionable outcomes such as Work for the Dole, ParentsNext and the PaTh Program.
Guardian Australia spoke to six people about their experiences dealing with Jobactive providers.
The nightmare of Australia's welfare system: 'At the push of a button, my working life was erased'
That's a nightmare.