As a former whistleblower myself, I’m urging the government to protect Australian whistleblowers | Jeff Morris

At first the Albanese government did act, dropping the Bernard Collaery case, but no substantial law changes have been made to shield whistleblowers

As a prominent former whistleblower, I am contacted by potential whistleblowers on a weekly basis.

I was optimistic a year ago when the Australian Labor party entered government. For years, the Coalition government had failed to fix federal whistleblowing law and presided over the prosecutions of four whistleblowers who exposed things like alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, aggressive debt collection and other alleged wrongdoings.

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