A new report from Griffith University, the Human Rights Law Centre, and Transparency International Australia highlights 12 “areas of reform” in which Australia’s parliament could bolster whistleblower protections and get up to speed with “international best practice.”
The report, Protecting Australia’s Whistleblowers: The Federal Roadmap, was authored by Professor A J Brown of Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Kieran Pender, a Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre. According to the Human Rights Law Centre, the report was to be “launched at the Parliament House” on the day of its publication, November 23. The webpage said that several representatives of the government were to be in attendance.
“Australian research confirms it is people within organisations – the officials and employees – who really know what goes on and remain the single most important way in which wrongdoing is brought to light,” the authors begin the report. The introduction explains that from the 1990s, whistleblowing laws for the public sector in Australia used to be “comprehensive” and “second only to the United States.” However, the report states that the country’s whistleblower protection laws “are falling behind.”
“Among more than 60 countries which now have stand-alone whistleblowing laws, many follow the US, United Kingdom and European Union by providing more effective legal remedies than Australia. In 2019, a Federal Court judge described...
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