Frontline Interview: Whistleblowers inside the Australian building racket

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

The Protection Racket

In recent years, it has been encouraging to watch the developmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) become more sophisticated in their thinking on the benefits of trade liberalization. NGOs such as Public Citizen that are against all forms of liberalization are now rare. Most NGOs including, for example, Oxfam, Christian Aid and Action Aid today agree that poor countries would benefit fro...

The Racket Manifesto

The creation of a programming language calls for guiding principles that point the developers to goals. This article spells out the three basic principles behind the 20-year development of Racket. First, programming is about stating and solving problems, and this activity normally takes place in a context with its own language of discourse; good programmers ought to formulate this language as a...

Protecting Whistleblowers By Contract

Building the Clinical Bridge: An Australian Success

Nursing effectiveness science includes primary, secondary, and translational, clinically focused research activities which aim to improve patient or client outcomes. It is imperative, for the successful conduct of a program of nursing effectiveness science, that a clinical bridge is established between academic and healthcare service facilities. An Australian example of the development of a rob...