Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill 2022
The Law Council is grateful to its National Human Rights Committee and National Security Law Working Group and to the Law Society of New South Wales for assistance in the preparation of this submission.
Executive Summary
The Law Council of Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (the Standing Committee) inquiry into the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill 2022 (Cth) (PIDAR Bill).
The Law Council generally supports the Australian Government’s proposed amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) (PIDA) insofar as the PIDAR Bill seeks to implement, in part, recommendations made by Mr Philip Moss AM in 2016,1 the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (PJCCFS) in 2017,2 and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) in 2020 for the improvement of federal whistleblower laws.3
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1 P Moss AM, Review of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, 15 July 2016, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia (the Moss Review).
2 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Whistleblower Protections, September 2017, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia (the Whistleblower Report).
3 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Inquiry into the impact of the exercise of law enforcement and intelligence powers on the freedom of the press, August 2020, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia (the Press Freedom Report).
Last Updated on 22/11/2024