Whistle-blower provisions in the ACT Government’s Public Sector management Bill were attacked yesterday as restrictive, inadequate an unlikley to be effective.
In an submission to the Legislative Assembly’s committee on the separate public service, Opposition Leader Kate Carnell, said the Government’s Bill protected public sector employees revealing “”restricted information” if it showed an indictable offence, gross mismanagement or a substantial danger to public health a safety.
The Bill she had put forward earlier this year gave a wider protection. It protected anyone (not just public-sector employees) revealing any information (not just restricted information) that showed not just indictable offences, gross mismanagement and danger to health and safety, but also corrupt conduct, dishonesty, breach of trust, any criminal offence, public waste or unlawful reprisal.
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