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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality editor

Workforce Australia job agencies rake in millions more from training contracts

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Workforce Australia job agencies lobbied against a proposed rule change which would have prevented them from referring jobseekers to their own training courses. Photograph: Vichien Petchmai/Getty Images

The employment services industry successfully lobbied to stop a proposed rule banning providers from referring jobseekers to their own training courses under the new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia model.

In a potential windfall for providers, Guardian Australia can reveal the department of employment last year intended to ban the practice before reversing course after “strong feedback” from the industry.

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