Agency says one in three jobs will be lost and warns current funding is insufficient for it to perform its statutory function

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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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