Dr George Gilligan argues that professional firms such as auditors and lawyers must have a weather eye on the protection that they provide for whistleblowers

New whistleblowing provisions will not be available to people working in the private sector and apply only to officials in federal agencies and the Commonwealth public service.

The failure of the UK's whistleblowing regime were exposed by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. But is it the fault of culture or legislation?

The legitimacy of the decision to blow the whistle cannot be divorced from the interaction between political culture, self-interest and capacity to frame discourse.

It is problematic how facilitative national law and other regulatory mechanisms should be towards whistleblowing in a digital age when a single individual can have global impact.

The Senate raises important, and uncomfortable, for ASIC to answer, highlighting whether enforceable undertakings place sufficiently stringent conditions on financial professionals.

With an election scheduled to take place in September, time is running out to put in place whistle-blowing protection at the federal level.

Should Australia follow the United States in promoting at a national level both the incidence of whistleblowing and the protections and incentives that are offered to those that come forward?