Designing a whistleblower rewards scheme is the next step for reform in Australia
Following several recent high-profile whistleblowing cases, Australia must now reckon with its flawed whistleblower protections regime and seek to do better. A single policy solution stands to make a big impact. A whistleblower reward scheme for Australia has long been debated, but has always been nipped at the bud, citing concerns that rewarding whistleblowing is fundamentally ‘un-Australian’, and that it may encourage bad faith claims and unreliable information.
