How to Make a Whistleblower
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Whistleblowers are having a big moment, but what happens after the whistle is blown? This new 3-part podcast, brought to you by The Australia Institute, follows the journey of how one whistleblower makes a big impact and rebuilds her life.
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Tip of the iceberg
December 18, 2019 04:57 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB“Australia needs more whistle-blowers. Democracy needs more whistle-blowers and a think tank like the Australia Institute needs more whistle-blowers.” - Ben Oquist, Executive Director of the Australia Institute. In this final episode we look at how blowing the whistle is just the tip of the iceberg and the role that civil society can play in promoting a culture that not only encourages but supports whistle-blowers like Maryanne Slattery, so that all their knowledge and expertise is not lost...
A Job and a Team
December 03, 2019 00:01 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB"This is the worst man-made environmental disaster in Australian history" - fourth generation farmer, Rob McBride. At the start of 2019, one million fish died in the lower Darling river, catapulting the plight of the Murray Darling Basin river system to headline news across the country. But how did it get to this? In this episode, discover how one whistleblower, supported with a job and a team at the Australia Institute, interprets the water bureaucratese and puts it into plain English for...
What Would You Do?
November 15, 2019 04:16 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MB“Part of the curse, I suppose, was knowing so much, knowing how rotten it is… And so, do you do something with that knowledge or do you just turn our back on it and look after yourself and raise chickens?” In this first episode of How to Make a Whistleblower, we investigate what happens to the whistleblower after the whistle has blown. Two years ago, Maryanne Slattery was an unassuming senior bureaucrat living just outside Canberra with her three children and many chooks. For someone who w...
Coming this November - Trailer
October 29, 2019 07:07 - 2 minutes - 2.15 MBSubscribe now to The Australia Institute's new 3-part podcast - How to make a Whistleblower. Come behind-the-scenes with us to look at what it takes to become a whistleblower and what happens next. How to make a Whistleblower speaks to Senators, whistleblowers, farmers, and communities directly affected by one person's decision to speak out about maladministration of a $13 billion public policy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.