The deal announced by the government will hold fee increases to 4.4% while lifting wages in an industry that can’t attract enough workers.
- Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
Australia has a long history of making unemployment support contingent on the idea of “deservedness”. JobSeeker rules are an extension of that.
Public schools in some states outsourced their cleaning services to private companies as part of a neoliberal experiment starting in the 1990s. This has had a host of impacts, including on students.
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