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Summer special: Welfare to worse

Dec 28, 2019
45:21

Whistle-blowers from inside Australia's lucrative employment services industry are claiming profits are being prioritised over the needs of vulnerable welfare recipients.

Reporter Andy Burns investigates alleged murky behaviour inside the government's 350-million-dollar "Parents Next" program.

She follows allegations that some private providers are benefitting at the expense of single mothers, some of whom are homeless.This is a repeat of a program that aired in August 2019.

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