The Mayor of Logan Darren Power says Queensland needs better protections for whistleblowers.
His comments come after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk appointed Tony Fitzgerald to conduct an inquiry into the structure and powers of Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC).
The Queensland government has accepted the effectiveness of protections offered to people who make public interest disclosures to the corruption watchdog needs to be reviewed, including the role the CCC plays once they make them.
"I think the CCC have got responsibility to obviously look after their whistleblowers," Mr Power told 7.30.
"If someone came to me, in my office as mayor, and asked for advice about being a whistleblower, I don't know whether I could actually tell them the truth about what they were in for.
"We've got an onus under the act to report corruption. But I can understand why people look the other way."
At the centre of the current debate is the conduct of the former head of the corruption watchdog, Alan MacSporran.
The experienced prosecutor took over in 2015 and set about exposing perceived corruption and donor influence in local government.
The complex corruption investigation that proved to be Mr MacSporran's undoing was in Logan City.
The controversy involved the council's new chief executive Sharon Kelsey.
She had a critical performance review meeting led by then-mayor Luke Smith. Two days later, Ms Kelsey decided to become a whistleblower, alleging...
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