Employment National was an Australian
Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
organisation tasked with assisting the unemployed receiving
Newstart Allowance
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into employment. It was created as "Employment Assistance Australia" (EAA) by the Keating government's Employment Services Act 1994. It sought tenders for federal government funded employment work issued by the new "Employment Service Regulatory Agency" (ESRA). EAA largely operated out of
Commonwealth Employment Service
The Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) was an Australian Government employment agency that was established in 1946 with the introduction of the ''Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945'' under the Curtin ALP government. It was designed to ide ...
(CES) job centres.
Under the Howard government in 1998, the CES was abolished, ESRA became the
Job Network
Workforce Australia is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that are contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of Employment and Workplace Relati ...
, and EAA was renamed "Employment National". It was a large government-owned Job Agency competing with private ones, in this way being like
Medibank Private
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was in the private health insurance sector during the period.
The agency and its final 165 offices were dissolved on July 30, 2003, with its functions being given to non-government Job Network providers.
References
2003 disestablishments in Australia
1998 establishments in Australia
Welfare in Australia
Defunct government entities of Australia
Unemployment in Australia
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