In July last year, a dying man walked into a harshly lit room in Newcastle's Mater hospital and sat down to record a message he hoped would outlive him.

"The only thing worse than losing your life is wasting your life," he began, staring directly into the camera. "My name's Troy Stolz."

The previous year, while litigation was underway, Mr Stolz had been hit with a court-ordered gag order preventing him from criticising his former employer, the powerful gambling industry lobby group, ClubsNSW.

ClubsNSW represents more than 1,000 registered clubs in Australia's most populous state and aggressively protects their rivers of gold: revenue from poker machine losses.

Mr Stolz and the not-for-profit lobby group had been at war since he leaked a confidential board paper written by his boss revealing up to 95 per cent of clubs were failing to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules.

The Federal Court suppression order had the effect of preventing him from speaking out further about his former employer.

By the time he entered the hospital room, Mr Stolz had been told by his oncology team that his oesophageal and bone cancer meant he had only weeks, maybe months, to live.

The video he recorded was meant to be the last words of a dying whistleblower; if necessary, a voice from beyond the grave, putting his views permanently and defiantly on the public record after his death.

"Some of you might ask why I've embarked upon this journey," he said in the...

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