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Articles on Whistleblower protection
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In many instances, whistleblowers find the abusive power they have revealed turned against them, both ending their careers and harming their personal lives.
There's no First Amendment in the workplace, which leaves worker activists at the whim of their employers.
Australian laws now give private-sector whistleblowers greater protection than their public-sector counterparts.
Workers are increasingly not keeping their employers' secrets secret, as evidenced by the mass whistleblower event that is the #MeToo movement.
Chelsea Manning's disclosures on the Iraq war were major milestones in the emergence of the digital age whistleblower.
Accounts and other tax professionals might face some awkward conflicts of interest thanks to the federal government's proposed whistleblower laws.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been killed in Malta – but we must accept that corruption is a problem for all of Europe.
We need to reform whistleblower protections if we want them to help maintain the integrity of government, business and non-profits.
Australian authorities are considering offering financial incentives for would-be whistleblowers to motivate them to come forward with high quality information.
Crucially, President Obama has commuted Manning's sentence without pardoning her.
As the curtain falls on the year, one of the most powerful players in the new parliament looks back on his successes.
The protection of confidential journalistic sources in public life is vital. We must not lose it.
Businesses are trying to set up procedures to help whistleblowers, but better guidance, incentives and regulation are still needed, new research finds.
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.
Tougher penalties and a central role for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission are key parts of Labor's policy to crack down on union corruption.
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?
Despite doctors voicing fears they could be jailed for disclosing abuse of refugees, Richard Marles says whistleblower protection laws would still apply in relation to the Border Force Act. Is he right?
Four decades on, in a digital era of surveillance and data storage, Watergate remains a useful yardstick for assessing the value of source confidentiality.
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Media Specialist, Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Senior lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Accouning, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Professor in Business and Society, National University of Ireland Galway
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
