{"id":559420,"date":"2022-03-16T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/mar\/17\/australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload"},"modified":"2022-03-16T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:30:12","slug":"australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/16\/australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Human Rights Commission to slash staff after budget cuts and surge in workload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says one in three jobs will be lost and warns current funding is insufficient for it to perform its statutory function<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>The human rights agency has issued a blunt warning that its current funding \u201cdoes not provide us with the resources required to perform our statutory functions\u201d.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/mar\/17\/australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/mar\/17\/australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says one in three jobs will be lost and warns current funding is insufficient for it to perform its statutory functionGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingOne in three jobs will be slashed at the Australian Human Rights Commissio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1730,6,29491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559421,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559420\/revisions\/559421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}