Graduating into a recession, my role at Australia’s government employment agency was sobering. I felt how easily my place could have been reversed It was 1994 and the then prime minister, Paul Keating, had a problem. Me.
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/23/job-that-changed-me-dole-office-people-desperately-wanted-work)