Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2013 - SECT 6

    The objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to promote the integrity and accountability of the Commonwealth public sector; and

  (b)   to encourage and facilitate the making of public interest disclosures by public officials and former public officials; and

  (c)   to ensure that public officials, and former public officials, who make public interest disclosures are supported and are protected from adverse consequences relating to the disclosures; and

  (d)   to ensure that disclosures by public officials, and former public officials, are properly investigated and dealt with.