'Smallest ICAC in history': Corruption watchdog warns of job cuts without more funding | LisaVisentin
The state's corruption watchdog says it will be forced to shed a quarter of its full-time staff over the next financial year due to inadequate funding, reducing the organisation to its smallest size in its 30-year history.
"This would reduce the commission's FTE staffing level to the lowest number in the commission's 30-year history," the submission said.Full-time positions "would need to be further reduced in each following financial year up to the year 2025-26" in order to meet "ongoing savings measures embedded in the forward estimates".
The organisations highlighted their inability to absorb budget cuts in line with the government's three per cent "efficiency dividend", and described the budget-setting process as lacking in transparency and consultation. Inquiry chair David Shoebridge, an upper house Greens MLC, said the submissions revealed a "high level of concern among these institutions that they will soon not have the resources to do the jobs they are by law required to do".investigation by cutting off the money," Mr Shoebridge said.
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