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The Department freely admits in these docs that compliance punishments hurt welfare recipients' chances of finding work - then chose to enact harsher punishments against them.

Because that's the whole point of employment services - they can't play dumb on that intent anymore
"The data also shows that the continued use of compliance action against some individuals does not lead to improved outcomes. Job seekers who received a payment suspension were less likely to subsequently achieve short or long-term employment outcomes than those who had never had a suspension and, the more suspensions applied, the lower the outcome rate (Figure 2.2). The same relationship was observed for financial penalties, but employment outcomes were even lower (Figure 2.3). These negative relationships remain even when accounting for age, length unemployment length, education level and circumstances such as disability or homelessness. It cannot be concluded that the repeated use of payment suspensions and compliance penalties against these job seekers is the reason for their poor outcomes, since job seekers who are disengaged and non-compliant, for any reason, are clearly going to be less inclined or have less capacity to find work than generally compliant job seekers. However, it is reasonable to conclude that the repeated use of suspensions and the current range of penalties against this group does not appear to have a deterrent effect. This may be due to the fact that currently penalties generally small or are able to be waived."
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM