Recent developments in Australian whistleblowing cases have shown how critical it is to get our whistleblower protection laws back up to world standards.
Fortunately, there are signs the new government will press ahead with reforms – but what’s involved in truly getting these right?
The importance of whistleblowing has been reinforced by parliamentary debate over Australia’s new National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), which resumed this week. On November 10, the Joint Select Committee reviewing the government’s bill expressed unanimous support for “wider-ranging whistleblower protection reforms” to follow, including “specific” consideration of an independent whistleblower protection commission.
