The Jobseeker program has always been about punishing the poor. The sudden raise in payments and dropping mutual obligations when "normal" people were ending up on Jobseeker during covid was a blatant demonstration of that.

Ok can I just state the obvious here that these roles require no tertiary qualifications. These people are in no way qualified to be administering any type of resilience course. They're not qualified to be working with these populations, period. Letting unqualified people fiddle around inside people's heads is no different than letting a regular person on the street perform surgery, it's incredibly harmful.

Does anyone know if Australia's mutual obligations were inspired by the model used in the US? I was listening to an episode of Reveal about work requirements in their welfare system and it was eerily similar. If not for the accents, you barely would have been able to tell the difference. It had all the same similarities: private companies full of unqualified staff, useless and condescending "training" that doesn't help people at all, job "providers" claiming all the credit for progress people made on their own, etc.