Australian Human Rights Commission to slash staff after budget cuts and surge in workload
by Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#5X6GB)
Agency says one in three jobs will be lost and warns current funding is insufficient for it to perform its statutory function
One in three jobs will be slashed at the Australian Human Rights Commission as a record number of complaints and low base funding take their toll.
The human rights agency has issued a blunt warning that its current funding does not provide us with the resources required to perform our statutory functions".
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