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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.
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.
The structures in place to prosecute and protect military whistleblowers are outdated Cold War relics – and we don’t even know how they’re being used.
Think whistleblowing is a matter of telling the truth? Think again. “Successful” whistleblowing, where the protagonist actually manages to make themselves heard in the media and get the support of the…
The G20 countries’ whistleblower protection laws fail to meet best international standards, according to the first independent evaluation of both public and private sector whistleblowing laws. This is…
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