Bill
Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28.
- Sponsor
- Andrew Wilkie
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-02-10
- second reading — 2025-02-10
- other — 2025-03-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-02-10.
The bill would create a new independent statutory body called the Whistleblower Protection Authority.
The Authority would give advice and support to whistleblowers, receive and help investigate their disclosures, and look into mistreatment of whistleblowers.
The Authority would have a Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, a Chief Executive Officer, an advisory board and a parliamentary joint committee.
- Establishes the Whistleblower Protection Authority as an independent statutory body.
- Gives the Authority power to receive and facilitate investigations of whistleblower disclosures.
- Empowers the Authority to investigate mistreatment of whistleblowers.
- Requires the Authority to provide information, advice, assistance, guidance and support to whistleblowers.
- Creates a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Board and a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Authority.
Whistleblowers and potential whistleblowers under federal whistleblower protection laws.
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