Outgoing watchdog chief Deborah Glass tells parliamentary hearing its funding should not be ‘at the mercy of the government of the day’
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About 3,000 residents lived in the Flemington and North Melbourne towers at the time of the lockdown, which led to police surrounding buildings and temporary fences being set up. Earlier this year, the government agreed to pay the thousands of residents aLast year, the Queensland government pledged to release cabinet papers within 30 days instead of 30 years inGlass also renewed calls for the ombudsman’s office to have its funding “entirely removed from political processes”.
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