The Work Programme was introduced in 2011, its aim being to assist long-term unemployed people, young unemployed people and disabled people into work. This report explores employer engagement in the Work Programme and the Youth Contract Wage Incentive.

This working paper reports on a survey of provider organisations conducted almost one year into the implementation of Remote Jobs and Communities Program.

This paper calls for a radical change in employment services through an examination of the tumultuous twenty year history of policy change and experimentation.

The Federal Government's Job Network is no longer fit-for-purpose. The program has been successful, but its economic backdrop has changed. Job Network was established to place large numbers of unemployed people into scarce jobs. Its role today is vastly different - preparing a smaller number of (often) disadvantaged individuals for a wide variety of jobs...

This paper briefly examines the development of the Job Network and evaluations of this system to determine the Job Network's capacity to cater to the needs of difficult-to-place job seekers and the long-term unemployed, and how this capacity might be improved.