Your Tax Dollars At Work...

...but not for you but rather for social in-activists.

Rights group tripled fees paid to consultants after cutback vow


After promising to clean up spending practices at Rights and Democracy, directors of the federally funded human-rights centre have overseen a tripling of the amount paid to consultants.

Never-used whistleblower panel has an $8.1-million budget


Tribunal hasn't heard a single case since it was set up in 2007. A little-known, never-used government tribunal will spend as much as $8.1 million of taxpayers' money by the end of 2012-13, federal documents show.