I would like to believe Hartsuyker is sincere in his objection to "training for training's sake". However, unless he's a total idiot (and let's not rule anything out completely), he must realise that this is actually "training for punishment's sake"; just more hoops for the unemployed to jump through. Should they be judged by any one of the parasitic privatised dole police agencies to have jumped with insufficient panache, or with a hint of bad attitude, they get breached.

Should Hartsuyker be genuinely concerned about wasting time and money on institutionalised and commercialised sadism, he should get rid of the Job Services Australia feeding trough, and have the government act as "employer of last resort", in parallel with provision of a "Universal Basic Income" (UBI). It's time to give up the fiction of a "skills mismatch" or "skills shortage" being a barrier to employment. Look at our public infrastructure; there is no end of useful work to be done, and plenty of people to do it. Full employment creates opportunities for training. No amount of training will by itself create full employment.