This may well be the most important paragraph in the report, kudos to the Ombudsman’s office (after justified criticisms in the Robodebt scandal) to now be transparently and critically investigating and reporting on issues like this:

For too long, dodgy companies like Sarina Russo and APM have cashed in millions of dollars on the outsourcing of massive parts of our welfare system.

Private job agencies take food off the table of thousands of JobSeekers with almost no accountability, transparency or oversight, and meanwhile Labor doesn’t seem to care if the system is even lawful.

Nothing in this report will fix the rotten soul of this system, which grants dodgy private job agencies extraordinary power over people’s lives with no oversight or accountability. The mutual obligations system needs to be abolished.

We can’t keep punishing people for not finding jobs which don’t actually exist.

My car is 27yrs old, so regular oil checks. I can be parked on the street outside my home & a guy driving past will stop to offer help. Torn between feeling grateful & patronised. I def wonder, wld they do this with a bloke? Also, if something's rly wrong, I'm calling my mechanic or roadside assist

BlueSky had been assessed by eSafety as "very low risk" in the social media ban due to there being around 50,000 Australian users, and very few young people.

But ultimately it is up to platforms to determine if they need to comply, and eSafety is mindful teens may migrate to new places.