Contact Us
Queensland
Organisation: QWAG (Whistleblowers Action Group Qld Inc)
President: Greg McMahon
Website: www.whistleblowersqld.com.au
Email address: admin@whistleblowersqld.com.au
Postal Address: PO Box 859 KENMORE Q 4069 Australia
Phone: +617 3378 7232 (has voicemail)
Greg is also a contact in Queensland for
- Whistleblowers Australia, based in New South Wales, but with members in most states, and,
- Whistleblowers Information Network, a national network with participants from most states.
Greg is a contact point for gaining access to a whistleblower or whistleblower supporter who may have experience or knowledge more helpful to a whistleblower’s needs than Greg’s.
New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory
Organisation: Whistleblowers Australia
President: Cynthia Kardell
Official Website: www.whistleblowers.org.au
Sister website: called “Whistleblowers Australia” at www.bmartin.cc/dissent/contacts/au_wba/
Email Address: ckardell@primus.com.au
Postal address: PO Box U129, Wollongong NSW 2500
Phone: (02) 9484 6895
Note: Both websites list contacts in NSW, QLD, ACT and NT.
Publications: The Whistleblowers Handbook and Whistleblowing: a Practical Guide are available at website www.bmartin.cc/pubs/99wh.html
Newsletter: The Whistle available at www.bmartin.cc/dissent/contacts/au_wba/
Submissions: A substantial body of submissions and other helpful documents are available on the two websites
Organisation: Whistleblowing Information Network
Contact: Peter Bennett
Email address: P.P.Bennett@bigpond.com
Postal address: 82 Brays Creek Rd, Tyalgum, NSW 2484
Phone: +61 2 6679 3851
Note: This is an information service only, and does not provide assistance to individual whistleblowers at this time.
Website and BLOG: under construction … The BLOG will be open to public comment posts.
Selected submissions from WIN include: (tba)
Victoria & Tasmania
There is a team of whistleblowers in Melbourne that work together on a needs basis, on whistleblower issues of their choice, without any formal organisation. The group includes Dr Kim Sawyer, a selected sample of whose presentations and writings have been linked below:
Presentation: A Whistleblowing Overview, Dr Kim Sawyer, Uni of Melbourne [Sawyer on Whistleblowing]
Submission: A False Claims Act for Australia, Dr Kim Sawyer, Sub 002 to House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblowing Protection) Bill 2012 and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) (Consequential Amendments) Bill, November 11, 2012 [Submission by Sawyer on False Claims Act] and [link to 94A. Attachment Sub Sawyer on False Claims Act]
David Carruthers (from Victoria) is available for contact:
Email: dc@davidcarruthersconsulting.com and Phone: +61410789844
Alternatively, if you are seeking contact with a particular whistleblower or whistleblowers from Victoria or Tasmania, you may also communicate this to the contacts provided for QWAG, WBA and/or WIN, all of whom have membership or links to whistleblowers in Victoria and/or Tasmania. These organisations will see if they can obtain for you the type of assistance local to Victoria or Tasmania that you are seeking.
South Australia, Western Australia & Northern Territory
There have been contacts in these states in the past, but QWAG is not aware of any contact details being offered by whistleblowers in these states at this time.
If you are seeking contact with a whistleblower or whistleblowers from SA, WA or NT, best is to communicate this to the contacts provided for QWAG, WBA and/or WIN. These organisations will see if they can obtain for you the type of assistance local to these parts of Australia that you are seeking.