Australia’s largest whistleblowing research project has given evidence to the first hearings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry into whistleblower protections in the corporate, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Whistling While They Work 2 project leader Professor A J Brown of Griffith University’s Centre for Governance & Public Policy told the Brisbane Inquiry, comparisons across the G20 countries showed Australia’s legal protections for corporate and not-for-profit whistleblowers is embarrassingly weak.
“However, Australian business and government face a vital choice on what to do about this,” he said.
“Will it be by introducing protections for employees who reveal wrongdoing in a piece-by-piece fashion in Commonwealth laws, starting with tax avoidance, then financial misdeeds, and so on?
“Or will it be a more strategic approach in which business is spared pain, with companies and employers operating under one overarching set of protections for those who blow the whistle on wrongdoing?”
Professor Brown and fellow WWTW2 research team, Associate Professor
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