Government has yet to provide any details about what a future review of protections will examine
They charged seven councillors and the former mayor Luke Smith with fraud, charges they were later forced to drop. Smith is still before the courts after being charged with a corruption offence.and sparked this year’s Fitzgerald inquiry found the CCC had no “statutory duty to protect whistleblowers”.
“To imply such a duty risks overreach and risks the CCC acting beyond the remit that statute gives to it,” it found. Its top recommendation was a review into “the effectiveness and appropriateness” of whistleblower protections, to whichThe chair of that committee, the LNP’s Jon Krause, said he had been eagerly awaiting Palaszczuk to act on that promise.
Speaking as Scenic Rim MP, Krause said a whistleblower inquiry should be open, with public submissions., which held public hearings, the inquiry into the CCC deliberated behind closed doors and only released submissions once its report was public.Prof AJ Brown from Griffith University. Brown was critical of “the one-eyed approach” of the parliamentary committee, but backed its calls for a whistleblower review.
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