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How our Public Trustee became a money-making machine – with your money
Wednesday March 10, 2021
In 1996, the Office of the Public Trustee was denied government funding to do its work. It has since built a veritable money-making machine.
An investigation has found the Queensland Public Trustees office made profit at the expense of vulnerable clients (file pic).
Queensland’s Public Advocate, well-regarded solicitor and researcher Mary Burgess, set out to review the Public Trustee’s fees and charges and ended up delivering a 341-page report to government on a much broader range of issues.
The report was delivered to the Palaszczuk government in January…
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