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Workforce Australia is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that are contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to deliver employment services to unemployed job seekers on Government income support payments and employers.
Workforce Australia; Employment policy, including employment services; Labour market programmes for people of working age; Co-ordination of labour market research; Equal employment opportunity; Work and family programmes; Participation, activity test and compliance policy for participation payment recipients
Family Tax Benefit is a per-child payment made through Services Australia to the people with at least 35 per cent of care for a child. Family Tax Benefit is income-tested on a family's adjusted taxable income in the given financial year. Income support recipients are exempt from the income test and are entitled to the maximum rate of payment.
In the 2016 Australian federal budget, an alternative to the Work for the Dole program was introduced, targeted at unemployed youth under 25: the Youth Jobs PaTH, an internship programme. [12] [13] [14] In September 2020 (November for Victoria), the Australian Government announced Work for the Dole's recommencement 'where it is safe to do so'. [2]
The Australian Department of Employment was a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs that help Australians find and keep employment and work in safe, fair and productive workplaces. [6]
A rally in support of the NDIS, Brisbane, 2012. A bill to establish the NDIS was introduced into Federal Parliament in November 2012 by then Prime Minister Julia Gillard. [25] [26] It was passed in March 2013 as the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013. [21]
ABC's "The View" was home to several contentious moments and prominent Democratic interviews in 2024, including a key moment of VP Kamala Harris' campaign.
In 2023, Australia's labour force was 14.2 million, with 1.4 million trade union members, an average annual income of $72,753, 3.8% unemployment and 6.4% underemployment. [1] Australian labour law sets the rights of working people, the role of trade unions, and democracy at work, and the duties of employers, across the Commonwealth and in