Youth internship scheme failing despite $2.5m advertising blitz

Only 4,785 PaTH internships completed in first 18 months, after promise of 30,000 a year

The government’s youth internship scheme is failing to attract participants and businesses at a staggering rate, despite a $2.5m advertising blitz.

Having promised 30,000 internships a year for young job seekers, documents provided to the Senate by the Department of Jobs and Small Business reveal only 4,785 internships were completed in the first 18 months of the $250m program.

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