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The Queensland government has ordered two separate investigations into the state’s Office of the Public Trustee, after a Four Corners report revealed exorbitant fees and dire financial mismanagement.

Public Trustees are supposed to protect the finances of people with cognitive deficits caused by such conditions as dementia, brain injury or intellectual disability.

Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman said she took the stories featured in Four Corners “very seriously” and described them as “difficult to watch” and “uncomfortable viewing”.

“Their experiences are unacceptable for any Queenslander,” she said.

She announced an internal review of the Office of the Public Trustee’s practices and policies and an independent external review into the three cases highlighted in the program.

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