Bill
Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025
before parliament, as at 2025-07-23.
- Sponsor
- David Pocock
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-02-11
- second reading — 2025-02-11
- other — 2025-07-21
- other — 2025-07-23
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 2025-02-11.
The bill would create a new independent federal agency called the Whistleblower Protection Authority to help whistleblowers.
The Authority would provide information, advice, assistance, guidance and support, receive and facilitate investigations of disclosures, investigate mistreatment of whistleblowers, and carry out enforcement and education activities.
The Authority would have jurisdiction over all federal whistleblower protection laws and consist of a Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, a Chief Executive Officer, and staff, along with an Advisory Board and a Parliamentary Joint Committee.
- Establishes the Whistleblower Protection Authority as an independent statutory body.
- Gives the Authority powers to receive and facilitate investigations of whistleblower disclosures, provide support, investigate mistreatment, and undertake enforcement and education.
- 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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