One of the Government’s big programs announced in the budget last night is the wildly capitalised sponsored internship scheme named PaTH. In brief, it involves the government incentivising businesses to hire young people on Newstart as part of ‘internship progreams’, for which they would be paid $100 a week on top of their regular allowance for 15 – 25 hours per week.
Seriously, the examples of internships in the budget papers are for *waiting tables* and *working in a supermarket* pic.twitter.com/2Aj3zdwvgw
— _robcorr (@_robcorr) May 3, 2016
Hmm I’m not convinced paying businesses to hire interns is a major win. https://t.co/YQwa3VaJfJ
— Osman Faruqi (@oz_f) May 3, 2016
The government’s internship program may lead the increased exploitation of young people @InternsAUS https://t.co/sVdoOOuGOU
— Joe McKenzie (@aJoeMcKenzie) May 3, 2016
So young people can get $4/h internships instead of being offered the actual job. #auspol pic.twitter.com/BjPDgWNoLO
— Rachel Baker (@astudentnow) May 3, 2016
I don’t think this is what people meant when they said they wanted paid internships.
— Neggy Gearo (@bortofdarkness) May 3, 2016