Disclosures can be made to an Ombudsman
If your organisation has procedures for dealing with information about serious wrongdoing, you should make your disclosure in accordance with those procedures.
However, in some cases, you may be able to make your disclosure to one of the appropriate authorities named in the Protected Disclosures Act.
The Ombudsmen are named as an appopriate authority. The other appropriate authorities include:
- the Commissioner of Police;
- the Controller and Auditor-General;
- the Director of the Serious Fraud Office;
- the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security;
- the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment;
- the Independent Police Complaints Authority;
- the Solicitor-General;
- the State Services Commissioner;
- the Health and Disability Commissioner;
- the head of every public sector agency; and
- the heads of certain private sector professional bodies having disciplinary powers over their members.