Well what did we expect from individualism, and private enterprise outsourcing? An improved outcome or just another par for the course conservative created gravy train for mates/lick spittles?

And the result of an ideological outcome or fix?

What'll create real jobs for Australians is a very different template, namely cheaper than coal energy, [Very large scale solar thermal, localized thorium reactors, and energy created by treating waste (biogas)], to more than halve the cost of industrial energy, needed if we are ever to attract high tech manufacture to this country! And not doable with gold plated foreign owned coal fired power!

The cost to high tech manufacturing or industry assembly, of energy and the total tax bill, being the deciding factors in pragmatic decision making!

Some employment could be kick started by governments and cooperative enterprises as the preferred (why wait) template!?

And if we just have the balls to usher in genuine tax reform and quite massive simplification, [not the tinkering at the edges, that "has been" the substitute for real reform and the steely resolve needed to actually implement it; even where that hurts some tax practises and or marginal business; still a must do, if we want to actually grow the economy and real jobs!

Training for non existent jobs, may well be a very nice money go round, or scam for a few privileged mates, but only new industries and industrial expansion will create the real and must have jobs of the future!

Politicians one and all! GET REAL AND STOP WITH THE ENDLESS PREVARICATION, BLAME SHIFTING AND EXCUSES, AND INDEED, THE OVER ABUNDANT EMPTY PROMISES! It's just not working except for a few privileged bloated burbling buzzards?
Rhrosty.

Worse are some of these private "vocational colleges", and taxpayer funds being given to them via HECS. A recent story on TV showed one such 'college', now broke and leaving students with a theoretical HECS debt - theoretical because they poor devils would never had gained a job at all, let alone the $54,000 pa job requiring the money to be paid. Those interviewed clearly did not have the intelligence needed for IT training, and all they got out of the deal was a laptop that will be of no use to them, and the taxpayers are left with the debt. Both the operators of these scams, and the politicians who aid and abet them should be brought to justice.

I was registered with an employment agency for two years. All I had to show for it at the end was two Christmas cards. I wrote to them indicating that though I was charmed by their solicitude, it was no substitute for actually finding me work.

On another occasion I was hired through a friend and worked in the job successfully for several weeks before I had to go and interview the agency staffer who was theoretically responsible for casual hirings. She was a very attractive blonde, so the visit was a bonus; but obviously her employers had no compunctions about charging for a fortuitous hire with which they had nothing to do.

Agree with the comments in the Article and the posts, however this problem is far wider than Adelaide.

Worst experiences were CDEP and other work for dole programs theoretically training people for employment, with no end usable qualifications or project recommendations which employers would trust.

Running small family business provided part-time employment, paid over three times award wage, the various unemployed all happy topping up their Centrelink incomes, gaining usable experience.

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Malcolm, do you employ any aged workers, older than yourself for example?