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Queensland Whistleblowing: Sterilising the Lone Crusader
Author(s) -
Maria William De
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1992.tb00909.x
Subject(s) - dissent , dissenting opinion , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , publishing , political science , project commissioning , sociology , law , public relations , politics , history , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
This paper critically evaluates one of the more interesting American imports in the last couple of years – the whistleblower. While noting that post‐Fitzgerald public life in Queensland is an obvious nurturant setting for the whistleblower, the paper considers how moral recovery may not be the most appropriate context for organisational dissent The paper predicts that whistleblowing will be captured in the heroic paradigm of the lone dissenting voice, and tethered to the limited agenda of clean government.