Former whistleblowers, experts and civil society groups are calling on the Albanese Government to establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority - as part of Australia’s integrity and regulatory landscape.

This document, by Transparency International Australia, the Human Rights Law Centre and Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, sets out a detailed proposal for how to fill the biggest missing link in Australia's federal whistleblower protection systems – a dedicated, independent agency or office to enforce these vital protections, and make the systems work.

A Whistleblower Protection Authority was first proposed by a Senate inquiry in 1994, and later endorsed by a bipartisan joint parliamentary committee in 2017. The Australian Labor Party pledged to establish a whistleblower protection authority at the 2019 election, and it has been a feature of several cross-bench bills to establish a federal anti-corruption agency in recent years.