Workplace problems, including bullying Schweik Action Wollongong, Challenging Bureaucratic Elites . Sometimes workers and clients of a bureaucracy need to oppose the people at the top. This booklet presents seven illuminating case studies, including the Movement for Ordination of Women and the Australia Card debate. It also gives examples of people's challenges to authoritarian governments. These case studies provide important lessons concerning the vital task of bringing about change in bureaucracies.
Many whistleblowers are subject to bullying, as are many other workers.
The WorkCover Whistleblowers Support and Action Group has set up a site dealing with problems in the Australian workers' compensation system. Australia Richard Blake tells about reporting on expenditure misrepresentations in the New South Wales Department of School Education. The shredding of the Heiner documents . The Queensland state Cabinet approved the shredding of documents gathered during an official inquiry into a youth centre, although they were being sought for purposes of a prospective court case. This case has been brought to light in a series of stories in the Brisbane newspaper The Weekend Independent .