At a glance

• Under the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019 (Cth), a review of the whistleblowing regime was required to start after 1 July 2024.
• On 2 June 2026, the Australian Treasury released its consultation paper 'Review of tax and corporate whistleblowing in Australia' (Review).
• The consultation paper invites submissions and identification of areas of concern or gaps with the whistleblowing regime by 29 July 2026.

On 2 June 2026, the Australian Treasury published its Consultation Paper marking the first phase of significant reform since 2019.

The 2019 amendments consolidated previously fragmented corporate and financial sector whistleblowing protections into a single framework under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and introduced a new tax whistleblowing regime under the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth).

The Review will now investigate how the corporate and tax whistleblowing regimes work including consideration of the following:

• Whether the tax and corporate whistleblowing regimes are working to protect whistleblowers and encourage compliance with relevant laws. Specifically:

• • the scope, coverage and operation of the tax and corporate regimes;
  • whistleblowers' access to justice;
  • administration and regulation of the regimes; and
  • effectiveness of the regimes in incentivising whistleblowing disclosures and disincentivising tax and corporate misconduct.

• How the tax and corporate whistleblowing regimes interact with other...

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