Tony Burke aims to make scheme ‘logical’, despite unemployment advocates’ calls for halt to controversial program
Burke said that the Morrison government had finalised contracts for the $7bn tender before caretaker mode, and that the Albanese government would be going ahead with the “more flexible” model.“It’s about getting inside it and making it logical, and making sure that when all these contracts take effect in a couple of weeks’ time, we’ve actually got a system that helps long-term unemployed people.”
Burke said that Labor had agreed that there were aspects of the old JobActive program that needed to change, but he remained concerned about proposed automation in the new system, which rang “alarm bells” given the so-calledHe said the “initial concept” of a points based system was “right”, but he wanted to make sure anomalies were ironed out and people weren’t unfairly penalised.
“What the government’s designed, some of it’s more punitive than actually getting the job done. We want to make sure, and I’ll be changing it over the course of the next week, to make sure that we can have a system that’s designed to get people into work, rather than some media stunt to punish people.”
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