Commonwealth Employment Service

Returned soldiers whose disabilities caused them difficulty finding employment were further assisted by the federal government's Vocational Training Scheme for Invalid Pensioners (which had started in 1941).

[2] The ALP government of Paul Keating released the "Restoring Full Employment" and "Working Nation" white papers in 1994.

From October 1996, the new government began to discontinue or defund the new personalised services the Working Nation plan had provided to the unemployed.

(The initial idea was to also place these kiosks in shopping centres and libraries to facilitate greater access to jobs for the community, however the plan was never implemented.)

Its functions were to be split between what was soon to be known as Centrelink (a federal government welfare agency), and ESRA (soon to be known as the Job Network, a market of competing employment services organisations).

[citation needed] At this time, EAA become Employment National and continued to compete with the other Job Agencies.