You can’t be fired for reporting wrongdoing, this is the sad fact that a few people in my organisation are going to have to come to terms with, yet they can’t let go. What they fail to comprehend is the reporting of wrongdoing is not the issue, the real issue is why the conditions to engage in wrongdoing are allowed to prosper – it really isn’t that hard.

They might not like me, I might not be part of the cool crowd but people who stand up against the prevailing order can’t be disadvantaged either – that’s the rules. The real issue here is not just the reporting of the wrongdoing, but the actual wrongdoing – what are they going to do about it? Why don’t they just concentrate on addressing the issue instead of trying to track down the whistleblower?

Even better, from my perspective as a reporter of wrongdoing is the failure to follow state government recruitment and selection policy – the exact policy designed to prevent such occurrences happening. So we need to start asking questions such as who authorised this recruitment policy? Who knew about this? How far up the executive chain of command did this go? What other appointments are tainted? Unraveling this interconnected web of corrupt activities is going to be fun, we know there will be roadblocks at every juncture, false leads and a distinct possibility of a cover-up. This is going to a very interesting period so let’s get this party started.