Job Network- the end of an era
The Job Network was introduced by the former Coalition Government at a time when unemployment was 7.7%. The Job Network proved highly successful at helping Australians into jobs with unemployment hitting a low of 3.97% in February 2008 under the Job Network. Yet despite the success of this ...
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Job Services Australia- not up to the challenge
Just weeks before the start of Job Services Australia, the Rudd Labor Government has replaced the Minister for Employment Participation.This is only exacerbating the disruption to employment services, with a Minister who is yet to get on top of his brief.This Wednesday employment services in ...
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Labor cuts funding to combat illicit drugs in sport
The Sports Minister today cut government funding to combat illicit drugs in sport in half. In October 2007, the former government allocated $41.8 million over 4 years to develop a comprehensive illicit drugs in sport policy.Today, the Sports Minister announced an illicit drugs in sport policy that ...
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Ministerial Statement - Local Sporting Champions
Dr SOUTHCOTT (Boothby) (4:02 PM) —The Local Sporting Champions program is one that the opposition has embraced and supported. Providing financial support to our up-and-coming sporting athletes who are required to travel long distances to compete in national sporting competitions is a worthy cause. ...
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Senate resolves Minister must table documents
After the former Minister for Employment Participation confirmed there were a series of phone calls between his office and an employment services provider during the Job Services Australia tender, the Opposition are seeking to determine the extent of the communications between tenderers and the ...
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Probity questions on employment services tender
Revelations of discussions between Minister Brendan O’Connor, his Chief of Staff and a tenderer for the $4.9 billion tender for Job Services Australia now throws the integrity of the tender into doubt. As revealed in Parliament today, the Minister and his Chief of Staff were thanked by a tenderer in ...
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