We need to reform whistleblower protections if we want them to help maintain the integrity of government, business and non-profits.
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Australian authorities are considering offering financial incentives for would-be whistleblowers to motivate them to come forward with high quality information.
It’s not a new phenomenon that scientists who challenge the orthodoxy or policy positions suffer career ramifications.
The US president’s attack on confidential sources is one of many legal and technological threats to public interest journalism, as a new report shows
In the wake of the Flint water crisis and with a new notably anti-science president, U.S. scientists are reevaluating how to navigate the tension between speaking out and a fear of losing research funding.
Crucially, President Obama has commuted Manning’s sentence without pardoning her.
The announcement of Chelsea Manning’s commutation raises questions regarding the future of other high-profile leakers, like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
The protection of confidential journalistic sources in public life is vital. We must not lose it.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
Businesses are trying to set up procedures to help whistleblowers, but better guidance, incentives and regulation are still needed, new research finds.
The bank’s recent scandal probably would never have happened had senior management only listened to Wells Fargo’s whistleblowers.
None of the politicians are talking about it, but threats to freedom of speech have emerged in three different guises in the first three weeks of the election campaign. First there was the assailing of…
Whistleblowers need better incentives, compensation and protection under Australian law, especially those in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
When Gay Talese signed a confidentiality agreement with a motel-owning voyeur, he got access to the voyeur’s journals and secret viewing perch. But he also allowed the spying to continue for over a decade.
Former ACCC head comments on calls for a royal commission into the banking sector.
The rise of leaktivism: specialised platforms and organisations that turn data into a weapon to strike at government and corporate power.
People who expose wrongdoing – whether it’s cruelty against animals or corporate misconduct – deserve better protection and even financial incentives to do the right thing, as the US has shown.
Whistleblowers still so often pay a significant personal and professional cost when they reveal wrongdoing.
It’s likely that many people knew Volkswagen was cheating on emissions tests, including the engineers who built the ‘defeat device’. But why did no-one at the car maker blow the whistle?
A staggering 20% of senior management positions remain empty in the NHS – a figure that goes up to 37% in mental health. As demand for health and social care services go up in a context of recession and…
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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