Compliance with the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012
The Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 (PID Act) aims to:
- encourage and facilitate the making of disclosures of improper conduct and detrimental action by public officers and public bodies
- provide certain protections for people who make a disclosure or those who may suffer detrimental action in reprisal for a disclosure
- ensure that the identity of the person making the disclosure and the content of that disclosure is kept strictly confidential
What is a public interest disclosure?
Public interest disclosures are reports about:
- improper conduct of public bodies or public officers (such as corrupt conduct)
- detrimental action that a public officer or public body has taken against a person in reprisal for them (or another person) having made a public interest disclosures or cooperated with the investigation of a public interest disclosures.
Goulburn-Murray Water (GMW) is a public body for the purposes of the PID Act.
How do I make a disclosure?
Disclosures about Goulburn-Murray Water or our employees, officers or members must be made directly to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) at GPO Box 24234, Melbourne 3001 or call 1300 735 135.
Goulburn-Murray Water is not able to receive disclosures under section 13 of the Act.
Goulburn-Murray Water’s role
Goulburn-Murray Water does not tolerate improper conduct. Neither does it tolerate reprisals being taken against those who come forward to disclose such improper conduct.
Goulburn-Murray Water has a procedure as required under section 58 of the Act. This procedure sets out how we protect people against detrimental action that might be taken against them in reprisal for making a public interest disclosure or cooperating in an investigation into a public interest disclosure.
You can download a copy of our Speaking Up Procedure, PDF opens in a new window.
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