Hope for young workers as SA youth unemployment dips

South Australia’s youth unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since 2019, despite still being the highest in the nation.

Under quota, underspent: SA loses youth jobs scholarship program

A $24 million federal scholarship scheme dedicated to helping 1200 young South Australians get into the workforce has been redirected to a national program after meeting just over half its quota and with $11 million left unspent since 2017.

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Isolated, out of work, learning online: How young people are impacted by COVID-19

SPECIAL REPORT: Young people are likely to be hardest-hit by the economic impact of COVID-19. But there are other ramifications, too – social isolation and a loss of those rites of passage that we took for granted just a few months ago. We look at how young South Australians are coping.

Report reveals South Australia's youth unemployment hotspots

The areas of South Australia worst hit by youth unemployment over the past year have been identified in a new report by anti-poverty group the Brotherhood of St Lawrence.

Young people left powerless in “callous” employment service system

Young job-seekers in South Australia have described feeling powerless, humiliated and frustrated by an employment service system they say is punitive and one-sided.

Event planning company sparks job hopes for young refugees

Seven former refugees living in Adelaide have forged new careers as event planners after undertaking an Australian-first training course aimed at curbing the high rate of refugee youth unemployment.

Death of the ‘Fair Go’

Evidence of widespread wage theft and revelations of a rotten culture in the nation’s financial sector point to a social contract in tatters – and will leave a lasting legacy of distrust and decay, writes Malcolm King.