AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By MICHELLE HARRIS, State Political Reporter
April 3, 2013
DETECTIVE Chief Inspector Peter Fox has questioned the adequacy of whistleblower laws after being told his public allegations of interference with police investigations, which sparked two inquiries into child sex abuse, did not qualify him for protection.
Mr Fox said NSW Police representatives told him that his publicly aired concerns – which included allegations members of the Catholic Church in the Hunter had sought to cover up sex abuse and senior police removed him from investigations into such matters – were not protected as public-interest disclosures.
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