Sydney Morning Herald July 16 2003
"A Tasmanian man was encouraged to apply for a job as a female prostitute under the federal government's Job Network program. The man, who had registered with Job Network, was yesterday matched with two jobs entitled Ladies of All Ages. According to the job descriptions, ladies of all ages were needed for a busy city escort service. The advertisements included a mobile phone number and job reference number. A call to the number confirmed the agency offered a full range of escort services. Labor's employment spokeswoman Jenny Macklin said it was outrageous taxpayers' money was being used to recruit sex workers while the Australian Democrats were more concerned about jobs that discriminated between men and women. "The employment services minister (Mal Brough) must urgently explain why this advertisement has been distributed through the Jobsearch database and detail exactly how many job seekers it has been sent to," Ms Macklin said. "Parents of young job seekers will be appalled if their children are receiving escort service job advertisements through a government service. "The distribution of this ad shows how little the Howard government cares about producing real job outcomes for job seekers." While prostitution is legal in Tasmania, brothels are not."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/15/1058035012641.html