Queensland Whistleblowing: Sterilising the Lone Crusader

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.