In this report, the Committee finds that the significant and numerous issues identified during this inquiry simply cannot be addressed by mere tweaks to policies and programs. They demand wholesale, large-scale reform in the coming months and years to fundamentally rebuild the Australian employment services system.

This report offers evidence-based insights crucial for policy reform and service delivery in Australia's employment services. The authors hope it serves as a catalyst for future research, and encourages stakeholders from policy domains, academia and industry to engage in rigorous, collaborative intervention studies aimed at finding innovative solutions that address mature age unemployment.

This report takes a systems perspective on employer engagement and activation. It draws on systems theory to consider the ways in which the employment services system facilitates or constrains active employer development of young jobseekers.

This paper outlines a proposal for transformative, long-term change, to develop a new, public employment service, which should be underpinned by strategic alignment between the United Kingdom’s industrial strategy and employment support services.

A recording of an online workshop about visual resumes which are used as part of Customised Employment. Customised Employment tailors a job or self-employment to fit the interests, contributions and conditions for success of a person with disability, while also meeting the needs of a business or the market for a product or service.