Anthony Aguilar, a retired Green Beret, recalls his harrowing experiences in Gaza serving as a subcontractor for UG Solutions — from witnessing high tech surveillance to indiscriminate murder.

I was a part of the old (underfunded, unfair, fragmented, and inefficient, according to the Productivity Commission) state-run system.

More than 80 per cent of unpaid superannuation goes unrecovered — and the agency in charge rarely penalises employers who do not pay it.

Even the Productivity Commission is backing way from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans A series of ABC 7.30 reports tells a familiar story of failure in human services. Inadequate staffing, dangerous incidents brushed under the carpet, ineffective regulation and, at the back of it all, for-profit businesses, either ASX-listed or financed by private equity. This time it’s childcare but the same problems have emerged in vocational education, aged care, prisons, hospitals and many other services. Every time the answer we get is the same. More and better regulation, we are told, will make the market work better, allowing competition and consumer choice to work their magic. Continue reading...

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Both major parties know how to improve Australia’s abysmal productivity performance but they have deemed it too hard.

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The Labor government has been busy privatising aged care assessment and awarded $1.5B worth of contracts to for-profit operators.

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