Kevin Rudd, the prime minister of this country...his wife...how did she become a multi-multi millionaire ?
According to LabourNet - a Trade Union Website - therefore buddies of the Labour Party, in 2002, mentioned there were scams taking place by JobNetwork
Providers and asked job seekers to offer up information on a " Dob in a JobNetwork Provider who is scamming" phone line.
The beauty of this information is, Liberal were in power at the time, and in 2002 no one would have known that a future Prime Ministers wife would be
a person who made multi millions of dollars through JobNetwork and other employment agencies.
The irony!!
Phone-In to Report Job Network Scams
Date: 22 February 2002
On Friday March 1, 2002 StandUp! will hold a phone-in to hear from jobseekers who have been misled or exploited by fake 'jobs' or 'training'
organised by some Job Network Providers (JNP)'s and/or their labour hire companies.
In 2001, JNP Leonie Green and Associates was reported for placing jobseekers into fake temporary 'jobs, such as bogus 'market research' so that the
agency could obtain placement payments of up to $400 per jobseeker from the government.
Over $200 000 was improperly obtained by this company in the scam and although monies have been repaid, Leonie Green and Associates continues to
practice as a Job Network Provider.
StandUp! wishes to hear from jobseekers who have been offered fake jobs, promised training which turned out to be bogus, or experienced other
unethical treatment from any Job Network Provider.
Many individuals who have been burnt by Job Network Providers are afraid to come forward and complain, as the JNP may still have the power to
recommend them for a punitive breach by Centrelink which can reduce or stop their income.
labor.net.au...
Although they focus on this one person who got caught, it was a known rort that many jobseekers were more than aware of.
Jobs advertised that didn't exist . The advertised jobs being lure to only get people on their books.
Also, if an unemployed person on their books FOUND THEIR OWN JOB they got a job finding payment of up to a few thousand dollars.
This scam was harder to prove as during checks to see if an unemployed person was still looking for work, if the person said on the phone I now have a
job, unbeknown to them - which is why it is hard to prove - the JN provider then put in and claimed the job finding fee for that individual.
Of course, I'm not saying that Reine was involved in any scams, but the scams were pretty systematic and went on for a while...and according to the
information 3rd item below, Raines company supplied 1/3 of all Job Network Agencies .
PM Archive - Tuesday, 24 July , 2001 00:00:00
Reporter: Alexandra Kirk
MARK COLVIN: The Federal Government has commissioned an independent inquiry into its $3 billion part-privatised job network, and moved to stop
employment agencies claiming fees for so called 'phantom jobs'. All job agency contracts are being changed to improve the scheme's integrity after
a departmental inquiry uncovered some questionable practices and urged contract conditions be tightened.
The Employment Minister, Tony Abbott, says the government is moving expeditiously to ensure the public has confidence in the system but the Opposition
says it's an admission that the job network's been open to rorting. Alexandra Kirk reports from Canberra.
www.abc.net.au...
And...
Jul 25, 2001 (The Courier-Mail
ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Government has announced a major overhaul of its $A3bn Job Network labour market program. On 24 July 2001,
Australian Employment Services Minister, Mal Brough, said Job Network members will no longer be paid if they place job seekers in their own
organisations, or "split" a job to create several short-term jobs. The changes come after claims Job Network members abused the system to earn
lucrative returns. Under the alleged scheme, Job Network members hired employees for the minimum 15 hours needed to receive government funds.
www.allbusiness.com...
So how many millions were made off the backs of the unemployed before this enquiry?
The more you read the deeper it goes.....
In 1988 she founded Thérèse Rein and Associates, later Ingeus. This international employment services agency assists jobseekers, in
particular long-term unemployed people, enter the workforce. Along with many others, Ingeus has taken on the role after the Howard Government
abolished Commonwealth Employment Service (CES), whose functions passed into the private sector.[7]
In 2005 Ingeus had revenues of $175 million and employed 1300 people in 66 offices in Australia, Britain, France and Germany. It was the
third-largest provider of services to the Australian federal Government's Job Network agency.
Now Therese's agency was International and surprise, surprise, Rudd wants to let in International Employment Agencies into the Job Provider
industry.....
ON Tony Abbotts own website is an article sourced from the Telegraph about Rudd wanting to let in untried International Job Agencies....
According to Tony Abbott....
April 2009
For some reason, the Government is keen to see
overseas employment agencies, without a track record here, displace proven high performing operators. Many of the sacked localProviders are charities
and not for profit organisations such as Wesley Mission which used it's surplus to fund services to the homeless and other marganlised groups.
However, Tony Abbott was quick to say that he doesn't know or believe that Therese Rein will profit from this but does say....
My understanding is that she no longer has Job Network bussiness in Australia so should be unaffected by the JobNetwork tender. I gather she's
seeking to expand into the U.K and Europe.
Conversely, UK firms are seeking to do JN work here in Australia and are said to have won significant business under the new tender.
www.tonyabbott.com.au...
Either way, Therese Reins accumlation of wealth through government funds via JobNetwork which supplied 1/3 of Job Networks Providers while her husband
was a government employee is suspicious anyway and wouldn't wash anywhere else but here IMO.
As for Rudd being a British Intelligence plant.
It's been said in the media here that it seems that Rudd is fishing for main position at the NWO table, so I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Whether he'll sell Australia down the river to accomplish his goals, guess it's a wait and see.
[edit on 1-11-2009 by Flighty]
