The state government quietly boosted the funding of two state watchdogs hit hard by COVID-driven workloads, but calls from other accountability agencies went unanswered in Tuesday’s budget.
to almost $1.6 million, along with an additional $5 million to increase frontline capacity to respond to complaints, particularly pandemic-related issues.The commission’s annual funding beyond that will continue at an increased figure of $1.2 million.
The pandemic also affected the ability of the Ombudsman to meet targets around investigation timeframes. including the Integrity Commissioner, Office of the Independent Assessor, the Queensland Audit Office, or the Information Commissioner.The Audit Office and Information Commissioner also failed to meet some of their performance targets around timeliness and service satisfaction.
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