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Australia’s Commonwealth Employment Service Showed How a Welfare System Can Actually Help the Unemployed
After 52 years in action, Australia’s Commonwealth Employment Service shut down in 1998, to be replaced by the widely hated, privately owned Employment Service Providers. At its best, the CES showed that a public welfare system can treat workers with dignity and respect.