Doing right by those who call out the wrong
- Report length
- 184 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s Independent Commission Against Corruption reviewed the effectiveness of the state’s whistleblower protections.
The review examined eligibility for protection, remedies for retaliation, confidentiality, support, oversight and the clarity of the law.
The Commission concluded that broader protection, better access to remedies and clearer laws would improve the regime.
Its 61 recommendations included expanding protection, improving enforcement and establishing independent support for whistleblowers.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
An independent, and adequately resourced, whistleblower support authority could fill a significant gap in South Australia’s whistleblower protection regime.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Notes on this record
- The Commission states the report makes 61 recommendations; they were not extracted because a complete numbered list matching that count was not found.
Coverage
This publisher
- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.