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Under the scheme, up to 30,000 young people will complete work experience at a business of their choosing* every year. The business gets $1000 up front to take on the free labour.

Internships are voluntary. They can't force you to do one.

The internships will run from four to 12 weeks and you'll be expected to work 15 to 25 hours per week (an average job is 40 hours per week).

You'll be doing anywhere between 60 hours and 300 hours of work all up.

You'd be expecting a bit of sweet $$$ for all that work, right?

Wrong.

You'll get your usual welfare payment (Youth Allowance, Newstart, Disability etc), plus an additional $200 per fortnight for working.

This means you could work 50 hours over two weeks and only get paid $200. That's $4 per hour.

By comparison, participants in the Green Army earn between $304.20 and $493.70 for up to 30 hours of work each week.

* They say that, but so did my year 10 career adviser and I still didn't end up at NASA.