$22.8M of your taxes spent on eSafety complaints that weren't resolved on time
The eSafety Commissioner received $45M of taxpayer money in 2025-26 but managed to resolve only 42% of complaints within its 8-week target — missing the 85% benchmark by a staggering 50.6 percentage points. That means more than half the agency's budget — roughly $22.8M — went toward a complaints system that failed to deliver timely outcomes for the Australians it's supposed to protect.