Finally independent senators not voting with the Marxists supporting renewables or LGBTQ nonsense, they are actually earning their keep

A major step has been taken to reform the laws meant to protect whistleblowers in Australia.

Andrew Wilkie MP, Dr Helen Haines MP, Senator David Pocock, and Senator Jacqui Lambie last week came together to call on Parliament to support their landmark bill to establish Australia’s first Whistleblower Protection Authority.

Andrew Wilkie MP addresses media at Parliament House this morning, joined by Professor AJ Brown (Griffith University), Senator David Pocock, Senator Jacqui Lambie, Dr Helen Haines MP, and Madeleine Howle (Human Rights Law Centre).

A Whistleblower Protection Authority would strengthen Australia’s whistleblower protection laws and better protect those who speak out against corruption and wrongdoing.

Late last week, WJF supporters chipped in to help publish an open letter in today’s editions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. With your support, we were able to coordinate with the four Parliamentarians spearheading this reform to print a message calling on Parliament to support the bill – and support whistleblowers. Dr Helen Haines even displayed our ad at the Parliament press conference this morning.

With military whistleblower David McBride sitting in a prison cell, and tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle standing trial, we need to change the law – and fast.

Reforming Australia’s laws is the only way we can protect future whistleblowers from being silenced, financial ruin, and prison.

At the heart of this law reform is the idea of a Whistleblower Protection Authority (WPA). A WPA would be an independent statutory body to oversee and enforce whistleblower protections and also support people who are brave enough to speak out against wrongdoing.

First proposed in parliament in 1994, a WPA is not a new idea and it’s gaining momentum. Just this month, a government-chaired parliamentary committee into the PwC scandal recommended a WPA to better protect corporate whistleblowers.

Now, Senators David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie, and MPs Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie, have begun the process to introduce a bill to establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority.

The Albanese Government has delayed reform for too long and we can’t wait on them any longer. Together, we’ll be working to demonstrate to Parliament just how deep public support for whistleblower protection reform is – all the way to the election.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

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13 thought on “Independent Senators present bill to protect whistleblowers”
  1. Do people have a short memory or what! I remember Jaqui Lambie pushing the Covid19 vaccine in near hysterics with a fkn psycho look in her eye.

    Wake Up people!

  2. Oh what? The “independents” finally found something to do!

    What’s the rest of Parliament doing about whistleblowers and truth in gubberment? Running for cover like sewer rats? Hoping it’ll go away?

  3. Good to see WIlkie is giving those others a free ticket back to relevance, I hope he hands out a few more

  4. Whistle blowers in jail….??
    Someones will be made to pay for this huge blunder.

  5. I usually send, every ANZAC Day,the letter a chap from Geelong wrote years ago and the local paper published.
    It said that original real reason for the ANZAC Day march was that it was a protest by returned servicemen who were never given their proper entitlements for their military service.
    Another, very old, wrongdoing by the federal government.
    I picked up a copy of David McBride’s The Nature Of Honour today.
    In the introduction he says that:
    “There is no greater gift in a fight than a truly despicable enemy.”
    That was music to my ears, as I have a bunch of enemies to box on with this and next year, and have drawn great inspiration form McBride’s words.
    He also said that: “Like any military decision, you don’t reflect on how hard it is going to be, you just do it.”
    We Australians have heaps to do, in the coming days, weeks and months so let’s get to it, Folks.
    And it is time to stand united. See you on the battlefield.

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