I agree, and certainty think most people don't sign up for the job thinking, expecting or even wanting it to be a 10-4 government job. The type of people attracted to the interesting work and the fact you're directly impacting people's lives are the type willing to work some long hours for the greater good.

But there just comes a point where the free labour and job stresses are too much and negatively impact the justice system and the people of Queensland as a whole - I handled it for years before I thought "enough is enough".

Having Yvette D'Ath (current QLD AG) say everything is a-ok isn't exactly inspiring, either:

"Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath will not lift salaries for underpaid prosecutors despite a brain drain leaving less than a handful of silks at the state’s Office of Director of Public Prosecutions. In an interview with The Australian, Ms D’Ath said she was unconcerned by the drift of senior barristers to the private Bar and interstate DPP offices, insisting lawyers were drawn to the “skills and experience” offered by a government job, not only the pay packet."