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.
