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.
