Date Time Blowing whistle on flawed laws Employees and journalists who expose organisational corruption are in danger of criminal charges under severe and complex national security laws, according to University of Queensland academics. UQ Law School’sDr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and journalism academic Professor Peter Greste said the new laws would have made criminals of many whistleblowers who took their stories to the media in the past. “Aside from COVID-19, the key stories from recent times have been about misconduct and abuse of power – by governments, banks, the Australian Defence Force, even parliamentary staffers,” Dr Ananian-Welsh said. “All of those stories depended on whistleblowers, on people who’ve seen things go wrong inside government and businesses, and then went to the press as a whistle of last resort,” she said.