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Last year, several labour market experts raised concerns about the proliferation of unpaid internships, which risked becoming a black market for slave labour.
Despite these warnings, the former Turnbull Government controversially announced that it would expand its $750 million Youth-Jobs PaTH program – to prepare, trial and ultimately hire young Australians – into the retail sector, which garnered a strong push-back from the union movement, Labor and The Greens.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.