Labor and the Greens have threatened to use their numbers in the Senate to compel Cash to produce the report under an obscure rule called the Order of Production of Documents. If passed it would give the minster a deadline in which she had to table the documents.

However, in the past ministers have ignored the Senate's orders and refused.

"It's an absolute disgrace that two years on from this tragic incident, the Turnbull government has refused to explain what it's done to make Work for the Dole safer for the people it forces to participate in the program," Husic said.

He suspects the government is playing politics but says he finds it "frightening" how little Cash appears to be doing to address safety concerns.

"If the Coalition can hold a royal commission into pink batt installation safety conditions, why can't they explain safety improvements on a government jobs program?" Husic asked.

"She should emerge out of whatever ministerial protection program she's put herself in and tell young Australians what actions she has personally signed off on to make Work for the Dole safer."



Work for the Dole injuries have increased fivefold under the Coalition’s “jobactive” system. In 2015-16 there were 500 injuries sustained, out of 106,000 participants in the Work for the Dole program, including one death.

A government-commissioned report by Ernst & Young found 64% of Work for the Dole risk assessments in 2016 failed to fully comply with standard workplace health and safety procedures.

BuzzFeed News asked the Department of Jobs and Innovation for updated figures on Work for the Dole injuries in the past year, but it refused to provide them.



As first reported by BuzzFeed News last month, Husic – who has serious concerns with Work for the Dole – has refused to guarantee the controversial program would survive under a Labor government.



Greens senator Rachel Siewert has gone a step further and is calling for the program to be scrapped immediately.



"Forcing someone into potentially unsafe and underpaid work so they can receive support is not good enough, and young people are justified in taking action," she said.



Siewert says it's unacceptable that Park-Fing's family and friends have been denied an explanation into his death for two years.

"A report into his death should never have been up for negotiation, it should have been handed down in a timely manner so that his family have answers; to suspend the family with unanswered questions shows true callousness.

"I hope the government and minister Cash see the gravity of the situation and move to urgently provide Mr Park-Fing's family with the report and ensure that the broken Work for the Dole program ends, or is at least not a risk to those forced to partake."

Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (AUWU), says the government's "head in the sand" response to Josh's death is completely unacceptable.



"We need to know that what happened to Josh won't happen to any other unemployed workers on these sites," Poxon said. "By continuing to administer the dangerously unregulated Work for the Dole program, this government is choosing to put the lives of many unemployed workers at risk."

The AUWU, which represents 12,000 members, is calling for young people to boycott the "unsafe" Work for the Dole program in favour of voluntary work, study or accredited training programs.

On Thursday, at a "Justice for Josh" rally in Brisbane, the union presented a petition to the Queensland industrial relations minister Grace Grace, asking her to investigate Cash and the federal government for failing to ensure Josh had a safe Work for the Dole site.