Oversight of the Public Interest Disclosures Act: Annual Report 2018-19

NSW Ombudsman's annual report details oversight activities under the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994. It covers how public authorities discharge their responsibilities and the office's support for authorities and whistleblowers. The report includes monitoring, auditing, advice, and education activities related to the Act.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in public authority compliance with whistleblower legislation based on reported oversight activities.
• Evaluating the support and advisory role of an ombudsman's office for agencies receiving disclosures.
• Monitoring the operational effectiveness of the Public Interest Disclosures Act through audit findings.
• Studying the framework for handling public interest disclosures within a specific government jurisdiction.

Strengths

• Report is mandated by specific legislation (section 6B of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994), ensuring a formal, structured source.
• Covers a defined annual period (2018-19), providing temporal specificity for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Column names and data structure are unknown, limiting detailed quantitative analysis.
• The dataset consists solely of a PDF report, which likely contains unstructured text, complicating automated extraction.
• Metadata for size and row count is absent across all sources, obscuring the dataset's scale.

Provenance

Source

NSW Government, specifically the New South Wales Ombudsman office.

Collection Method

Report compiled pursuant to statutory requirements.

Time Range

2018-19

Freshness

Last updated on data.gov.au: 2026-06-26 03:21:18.752578

Geography

New South Wales, Australia