CES REVIVAL MAKES SENSE AS PRIVATIZATION BECOMES A POLITICAL CURSE

Privatization is on the nose right across the Australian electorate, it's starting to reek like the rotting carcass of a mammoth which has been baking in the sun for three days, the elimination of first term LNP governments in Queensland and Victoria since November is proof of that. Voters have spoken, it's a lemon.

Hence, one would wonder why the cash strapped and budget stressed Joe Hockey
would not be looking outside the square more than ever and outside the relatively narrow windowpane of institutionalized Liberal economics, and at least mull over the advantages of bringing some long privatized commonwealth entities back from the dead, which would spare the federal budget being raided for much greater and wasteful expenditure subsidizing 'privatized ex-government ones'.  At the very top of his hit list of comebacks should be the Commonwealth Employment Service.

I'm quite sure actually that an audit of government expenditure would conclude that monumental budget savings are possible if the government is bankrolling a re-born CES rather than blowing hundreds of millions of dollars each year on private job agencies which have never had to account for their overall failure to facilitate the satisfactory service once provided by the CES to Australia's unemployed.

A CES re-birth would save the federal budget hundreds of millions each year most likely and give back to the unemployed a jobs agency which has a social charter and obligation to find them a job. Seriously, they have not had that since the CES got the chop in 1997.