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The European Union has recently strengthened its regulations aimed at protecting whistleblowers. (Shutterstock)

Why is it so difficult to handle whistleblower reports?

Compliance officers, professionals that handle whistleblowing reports, often find themselves caught between two parties with divergent interests — whistleblowers and company management.
Witness K’s lawyer Bernard Collaery addresses outside the Supreme Court. Australia’s laws have shown they don’t do much to protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest. Lukas Coch/AAP

From Richard Boyle and Witness K to media raids: it’s time whistleblowers had better protection

Australian laws make it inevitable for whistleblowers to be charged whenever national security might be involved, even when the information is in the public interest.

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