本文探討澳洲州級政府公益揭發 / 揭弊立法內涵，各州的立法名稱、概念界定、規範密度、實踐作法有其共通的原則亦有差異之處，在制度參照上提供多元觀點。公益揭發 / 揭弊保護在澳洲取得正當性而成為公共政策議題，在於政府誠實的回應公務員貪污醜聞調查中所曝露出揭發者受報復的困境，1989 年「費茲傑拉報告」是最重要的催生因素。鼓勵及促進公益揭發、讓揭發情事受到調查與矯正、保護揭發者是立法的核心目標，但每個立法均有缺失，無最佳的實務模式。本文並從「適當的人員將公益資訊，向適當的組織為適當的揭發，則受到保護」之方向，對我國未來立法提出一些看法。

This paper discusses Australian state-level public interest disclosure legislations and the extent to which legislative measures have been effective in protecting whistleblowers from workplace retaliation. It explores the identical and the different among legislations,which provide us multiple perspectives for reference in our future enacting a law.Whistleblower protection legislation becoming policy agenda and gaining advocates and acceptance derived from the Fitzgerald Report 1989, which indicated the needs to protect government employees who disclose wrongdoings relevant to public sector. To facilitate and encourage public interest disclosures, to ensure that disclosures are properly dealt with, and to ensure the protection of whistleblowers from reprisals are the core objects of those legislations. However, each existing law has its own weakness. There is no best practice model. The paper suggests our government to review the necessary to enact a similar law, and provides some initial opinions in legislat on following the line that “An appropriate disclosure of public interest information made by the proper person to a appropriate authority receives formal protection”.