Departures come as Ibac probes classified information leaks and has three outstanding reports with potential political fallout in state election year
The commission has been investigating leaks of classified information, including drafts of those same three reports, although it said in a statement to Guardian Australia that it was confident breaches regarding its investigations came from outside the organisation.
“The volume of allegations we receive, combined with our resource constraints, mean we will always have more work than we can do. Ibac did not comment on whether it considered previous strategies designed to retain staff had succeeded, how much it had spent on contracting legal work to external lawyers in the past year, and whether it believed investigations were being compromised by the pressures on the legal team.“There is already a backlog of work that doesn’t get done at the moment because of too few staff,” an Ibac employee said.
“Ibac recently welcomed additional ongoing funding to our base budget … this additional budget will allow Ibac to maintain its current capacity, but it will not allow us to increase our capacity. Ibac reversed the decision to force staff to reapply only days later, and insists there will be enough roles under the restructure for all current staff.
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