Aren’t we aiming for inclusion? For-profit providers. Ineffective subsidies. Mutual obligation. Contract gaming. What’s the Disability Employment Services sector coming to? It doesn’t seem to be designed for inclusion of people with…
Always focus on ability What you look for is what you see. This is why I created the Focus On Ability Short Film Festival. In our first year, 2009, we received 12…
More about mutual obligation In Australia’s , currently the obligation is on job seekers to look for work. At face value this seems OK. But you’d think, ipso facto, that…
The moral mess of mutual obligation The new contract for Disability Employment Services (DES) will not bring. Government will scratch its head, blame the economy and people with disability, talk…
Casualisation of the workforce There is no incentive for finding job seekers full-time work. In fact, incentives fall the other way. The entire employment industry is rewarded for splitting full-time…
Five problems with the current incentives Having complained about the perverse incentive arrangement for Disability Employment Services (DES) , I feel the need to explain the numbers behind the complaint.…
The commercialisation of poverty Farming out the care of our own to others doesn’t work. Why would we think it could? When governments award contracts to from overseas, who is the…
Malingerers and their hip pockets I’m sick of conservatives in power basing their treatment of job seekers at least in part on the idea that ‘these people are malingerers’. Surely…
Duty of risk In a recent blog I talked about , where duty of care refers to ensuring that the most vulnerable people in society are protected from harm while…
New contract, old problems A new Disability Employment Service (DES) contract has arrived, which will run until 2023. There are new players and new rules. There’s also a new demerit…
