Is it any wonder why politicians are so hostile to the Human Rights Commission?
to earmark a $16 million equity injection in the mid-year budget to keep the lights on.
But it is odd, then, that our pile of Freedom of Information documents appears to pin much of the HRC’s fiscal plight on the government’s own mismanagement of its statutory appointees.In our possession is a letter dated August 14, 2021, sent to Cash by HRC president, who helpfully pointed out two commissioners appointed by the government were made “without a corresponding increase in the Commission’s funding or [average staffing level] cap for staff to support the commissioners”.
What’s more, due to recklessly draconian COVID-19 measures, the HRC has been inundated with double the level of complaints than the average between 2016 and 2019, which takes highly paid lawyers to sift through.
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