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February 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A fear of using public transport at night, a lack of training and a culture of unemployment are barriers to getting and keeping a job in Australia’s disadvantaged communities, a new study has found.
The Life Around Here study was based on interviews at 59 households across Broadmeadows in Victoria, Mansfield Park in South Australia and Carole Park in Queensland.
Lead researcher Kelly Hand said each suburb had been identified as being socially and economically disadvantaged and over half of the households interviewed did not have an adult employed.
She said while many needed assistance with retraining or job hunting, they also needed help to deal with seemingly mundane issues.
“We called them the small things that can pop up in your life but can get in the way of getting a job or keeping a job – your car breaking down and not being able to get to work or losing your childcare,” she said.
“They spoke of losing jobs when the family car broke down or their child was sick and they needed to take time off work.”
Ms Hand said the fact many residents in the suburbs did not feel comfortable walking to and from local public transport limited their chances of finding a suitable job.
“Often the kind of jobs people were going for in the suburbs didn’t tend to be jobs that were nine to five,” she said.
Some residents also described a culture of unemployment among some groups in their suburb which meant they did not have the support of friends and family to help them break the joblessness cycle.
Ms Hand said one man told researchers he had quit his job when his wife suffered a miscarriage.
The man said he didn’t know he would have been able to ask for time off and Ms Hand said he didn’t have the right network to help guide him.
Overall the study found a strong desire to find employment among the interviewees, who listed access to education as the most important factor in improving their prospects of employment.
The federal government’s Australian Institute of Family Studies completed the report, which will be considered in determining new policy.
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