What Labor says about unemployment behind closed doors
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What's New Labour Saying About Mutual Obligations?
A key speech delivered by Tony Burke, which he delivered to a private audience. It confirmed this really key criticism of the Employment Services System that advocates have been raising for a very long time. Just 14% of all the advertised jobs, nationally, were suitable for this group of people. He inherited these $7.1 billion contracts for workforce Australia that was signed by the coalition before. This is the second biggest contractual undertaking by the Commonwealth outside of defence spending. But now we're getting a little bit more explanation from him about the room he thinks he has to move within those contracts without breaking them to change things that are starting to concern him.
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