Hi!

This is just a quick update to inform you all that our petition was lodged in the form of a Word document via email to the CEO's of Centrelink and Workforce Australia on Monday, July 1st, 2024 at 5:04pm Canberra time.  I also attached the final list of signatures along with our petition document.

The message that I sent is written below: 

Good morning Grant and Nat,

I speak on behalf of all jobseekers living across the country.

Please find enclosed my petition calling on Centrelink and Workforce Australia to stop manipulating jobseekers and abolish all mandatory activity requirements, along with the final list of all 423 signatures.  This petition isn't something you can just brush off and put aside because it will serve as a big reality check for not only yourselves, but your employees as well.  We need you to take the petition seriously and reform your jobseeker rules so that the only obligation we have is to search and apply for jobs at our own pace without having to attend compulsory appointments with our job coaches, attend short courses, undertake voluntary work placements or agree to job plans.  Obligations that serve for what is an unattainable goal are not obligations - they are simply just tasks that hinder our hopes for scoring ourselves a job, and anything that hinders the situation should not be in the rulebook.

Many of us have made various complaints in the past about your mistreatment of us and your manipulative behaviour towards us, along with other countless issues, but you have continued to brush those complaints off and refuse to listen to us.  We have continued to complain about the mandatory activity requirements that are imposed on us being a waste of our valuable time and money, and you still refuse to listen to us.

We will not let you get away with your manipulation, mistakes and ignorance any longer.

If you refuse to put 100% commitment into our petition, we will file reports to the Fair Work Ombudsman and have them take your companies to court for treating jobseekers unfairly.

Sincerely,

Ella Juric and all signatories of the petition

I would like to thank you all again for showing your support and adding your names to this petition and sharing it far and wide across the country over the last four months.

Please note that any further signatures from here on in will not be accepted as the deadline of June 30th, 2024 has well and truly passed.