Unfortunately, that's pretty normal for these sorts of scammers.
The site they did the original ads on, jobsearch.gov.au, despite being provided by the Department of Employment here in Australia, is probably the worst jobs board I've seen anywhere - most of the content is screen-scraped from other databases, and as far as I can tell, none of it is checked for accuracy (or even whether they've dropped it into the right category in the database). In my last trawl through there (the day this bloke was advertising) they purported to list 28 positions available for part-time administrative workers in Perth, Western Australia. Now, 21 of those 28 were this particular scam; of the others (all screen-scraped from CareerOne.com.au), one had expired long since, another three weren't in the same state (one of them was in Newcastle NSW, the other two were in England - and they'd already closed for applicants), and a fifth didn't really look as though it had existed in the first place (and certainly didn't now).
Unfortunately for me, the Australian government does tend to try to push the use of jobsearch.gov.au on the unemployed via the various employment service providers.
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The site they did the original ads on, jobsearch.gov.au, despite being provided by the Department of Employment here in Australia, is probably the worst jobs board I've seen anywhere - most of the content is screen-scraped from other databases, and as far as I can tell, none of it is checked for accuracy (or even whether they've dropped it into the right category in the database). In my last trawl through there (the day this bloke was advertising) they purported to list 28 positions available for part-time administrative workers in Perth, Western Australia. Now, 21 of those 28 were this particular scam; of the others (all screen-scraped from CareerOne.com.au), one had expired long since, another three weren't in the same state (one of them was in Newcastle NSW, the other two were in England - and they'd already closed for applicants), and a fifth didn't really look as though it had existed in the first place (and certainly didn't now).
Unfortunately for me, the Australian government does tend to try to push the use of jobsearch.gov.au on the unemployed via the various employment service providers.