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Commonwealth spends millions prosecuting whistleblowers

The federal government has spent $7.6 million on the prosecution of four whistleblowers, a Senate committee has heard.

AAP

Whistleblower Jeff Morris labels integrity reforms hypocritical as government presses ahead with prosecutions

One of the nation's highest-profile corporate whistleblowers has accused the federal government of "fiddling while Rome burns", labelling integrity reforms as hypocritical considering the Commonwealth is still pressing ahead with two prosecutions.

ABC News

It is not in the public interest to jail people for telling the truth. Labor must end these whistleblower cases

If these brave people are punished for doing the right thing, it will cloud the Albanese government’s legacy

The Guardian - AU

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The prosecution of David McBride for exposing Australian war crime allegations is an outrageous injustice

The attorney general must discontinue the case against the former military lawyer and fix federal whistleblowing law

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower Richard Boyle tells court tax office work culture was ‘woeful’

Former ATO employee facing 24 charges after raising concerns publicly about aggressive pursuit of debts in 2018

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Zelenskiy appeals to Australia, 37 dead in Thailand attack, Annie Ernaux’s Nobel win

Friday: Ukraine’s president has urged world leaders not to give in to Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’. Plus: should Labor scrap the stage-three tax cuts?

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower Richard Boyle feared ATO tactics would cause ‘suicide in community’, court hears

Boyle hopes he will be protected by public interest disclosure laws after he aired claims of aggressive tax office debt collection methods in 2018

The Guardian - AU

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Whistleblower Richard Boyle tells of PTSD developed from 'gobsmacking' ATO work

Former tax officer Richard Boyle tells a South Australian court of some of the alleged directives he disagreed with while working at the ATO, including one he was worried would cause suicide and death "on a massive scale".

ABC News

Judge adjourns hearing of tax whistleblower Richard Boyle for one day

Both parties asked to ‘have a crack’ at coming to an agreed set of facts in first judicial test of public interest disclosure legislation

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower case stalls over legal issue

Action by a tax office whistleblower to try to block his prosecution has been stalled after a judge refused to proceed without the facts of the case before her.

AAP

Call to end ATO whistleblower prosecution

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Commonwealth to withdraw its prosecution of tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle.

AAP

Geordie prisoner found dead in cell had 'wrap of 23 tablets inside his body'

Simon Boyle was serving a five-year sentence at Holme House when he was found unconscious

Chronicle Live

Court document filed by ATO whistleblower as part of immunity application details 'bad culture' at department

South Australian whistleblower Richard Boyle has accused the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in court documents of being "callous" after taxpayer threats of suicide went ignored by senior Adelaide staff members.

ABC News

Morning mail: Morrison committee revelations, occupied Ukraine ‘votes’, Trump legal woes

Wednesday: Documents reveal a committee of which the former PM was the only permanent member met hundreds of times. Plus: how many ants are there in the world?

The Guardian - AU

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The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower claims ATO was ‘callous’ when taxpayer said he was ‘losing will to live’ over debts

Richard Boyle alleges tax office blocked him from helping individuals and one senior staff member said ‘I am sick of taxpayers threatening suicide’

The Guardian - AU

Are Australia’s whistleblowing laws fit for purpose? A former tax officer’s hearing may tell us

Richard Boyle will try to convince a court he should be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act. If he fails, the calls for a legal overhaul of whistleblower protections will likely be overwhelming

The Guardian - AU

Courts lift suppression orders on ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle’s landmark case

Boyle took unprecedented step of invoking Australia’s whistleblower protections after exposing tax agency’s aggressive debt collecting practices in 2018

The Canberra Times

'A chilling example': Dreyfus urged to drop ATO whistleblower case

The whistleblower is facing life in prison for revealing harsh debt recovery practices by the ATO.

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The Conversation

Tax office whistleblowing saga points to reforms needed in three vital areas

Last Friday’s twist in the long prosecution of Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle – now headed for its fifth year – brings into relief the serious flaws in our nation’s whistleblowing laws.

The Guardian - AU

Prosecutors seek suppression orders in case against tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle

Adelaide-based public servant blew the whistle on the use of garnishee notices to claw back debts from taxpayers

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government continues push to keep parts of Bernard Collaery case secret

Human Rights Law Centre says new attorney general should abandon the appeal and let judgment ‘finally see the light’

ABC News

Attorney-General rejects calls to drop prosecution of ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle ahead of trial

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ruled out dropping charges against former ATO public-servant-turned-whistleblower Richard Boyle, who is set to face trial later this month.

The Guardian - AU

‘Witness K and Bernard Collaery are heroes’: how Australia made two men pay for its dirty secrets

Decision by new government to abandon prosecution prompts widespread relief from lawyers and supporters in Australia and Timor-Leste

The Guardian - AU

Prosecution of whistleblower lawyer Bernard Collaery dropped after decision by attorney general

Mark Dreyfus ordered the commonwealth DPP to discontinue case over alleged unlawful disclosure of classified information

The Guardian - AU

Coalition government spent $6m prosecuting Bernard Collaery and three other whistleblowers

Exclusive: Figures provided to the Guardian reveal exorbitant legal bill for pursuing cases against Collaery, Witness K, Richard Boyle and David McBride

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