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'Run like you're on fire': Whistleblower for ASIC says corporate watchdog abandoned him
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/former-banker-attacked-after-being-asic-witness/10505628
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I find this article naive and fascinating at the same time. His solicitor gets it but most people just dont.
Protecting whistleblowers has never worked. In NSW there are criminal penalties with reverse burden of proof for public sector whistle blowers. Ie once you've established detrimental action the defendant has too prove they weren't motivated by revenge.
There's never been a single conviction despite numerous cases of detrimental action against whistle blowers.
It's human nature to punish people who "rock the boat" and it's deeply ingrained. There's no difference between the public and private sectors in these matters as I see it.
The best option I know of is the US public sector where they dont pretend they can protect whistel blowers, they give them a percentage of money recovered to help them move on after the inevitable job loss. It's limited to financial fraud and maladministration though. In some matters there is no quantifiable financial outcome.
References
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/whistleblowersstories.html
Brian Martin is a professor ar Wollongong Uni with a long history if involvement and publishing papers on whistle llowing and dissent generally. The link is to a list of his publications. I think he's a genius but it's not a simple topic.
http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/supp.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/former-banker-attacked-after-being-asic-witness/10505628
Sent from Yahoo7 Mail on Android
I find this article naive and fascinating at the same time. His solicitor gets it but most people just dont.
Protecting whistleblowers has never worked. In NSW there are criminal penalties with reverse burden of proof for public sector whistle blowers. Ie once you've established detrimental action the defendant has too prove they weren't motivated by revenge.
There's never been a single conviction despite numerous cases of detrimental action against whistle blowers.
It's human nature to punish people who "rock the boat" and it's deeply ingrained. There's no difference between the public and private sectors in these matters as I see it.
The best option I know of is the US public sector where they dont pretend they can protect whistel blowers, they give them a percentage of money recovered to help them move on after the inevitable job loss. It's limited to financial fraud and maladministration though. In some matters there is no quantifiable financial outcome.
References
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/whistleblowersstories.html
Brian Martin is a professor ar Wollongong Uni with a long history if involvement and publishing papers on whistle llowing and dissent generally. The link is to a list of his publications. I think he's a genius but it's not a simple topic.
http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/supp.html
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