William DeMaria

Dr Bill DEMARIA

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Positions Held

Lecturer in Organisation & Communication

Academic Qualifications

Publications

Books And Monographs

• De Maria, W, Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1999).
• De Maria, W., "Open Spaces, Secret Places: Workplace Violence Towards Whistleblowers", in McCarthy, P. et. al., Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom (Millenium, Sydney, 1996), pp. 34 46.

Book Chapters

• De Maria, W., "Sceptic Notes on African Corruption" in Munyaradzi Felix Murove (Ed) African Ethics Anthology (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, South Africa, 2008) (forthcoming).
• De Maria, W., "The New War on African "Corruption": Just another Neo-Colonial Adventure"? in Prasad, A. (ed). Against the Grain: Advances in Post-Colonial Organisation Studies, (Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press, 2008), ch. 8.
• De Maria, W., The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Review: On Remaining Seated During the Standing Ovation", in J. McMillan (ed.), Administrative Law. Does the Public Benefit? (Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Canberra, 1992), pp.96-121.

Published Refereed Journal Articles

• De Maria, W., "The Change Maker as Tyrant. Hegemonic Rhythms in the African Anti-corruption Song", South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2008 (forthcoming).
• De Maria, W., "Whistleblowers and Organizational Protesters. Crossing Imaginary Borders", Current Sociology, Vol. 56, No. 6, 2008, pp. 865-883.
• De Maria, W. "Neo-colonialism through Measurement: A Critique of the Corruption Perceptions Index. Critical Perspectives on International Business, Vol, 4, No. 2/3, pp. 184-202, 2008.
• De Maria, W., "Cross Cultural Trespass. Assessing African Anti-Corruption Capacity", International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, December 2008.
• De Maria, W., "Measurements & Markets. Deconstructing the Corruption Perceptions Index." International Journal of Public Sector Administration, Vol. 21, No. 7. 2008. Outstanding paper award 2008
• De Maria, W., "Does African Corruption Exist"? African Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, pp. 1-9.
• De Maria, W., "Brother Secret, Sister Silence. Sibling Conspiracies against Managerial Integrity, Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 65, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 219-234.
• De Maria, W., "Common Law-Common Mistakes. Protecting Whistleblowers in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & the United Kingdom", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 19, No. 7, 2006, pp. 643-658. Emerald award for outstanding publication in 2006.
• "Whistleblower Protection. Is Africa Ready?" Public Administration and Development (forthcoming)
• "Rescuing FOI- Rescuing Democracy", The Drawing Board; An Australian Review of Public Affairs, March 2002 (online www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard)
• "FOI Unshackled?: The Murray Bill, Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 26, (4), August 2001, pp. 191-195.
• Review essay of B. Martin's The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to be an effective Resister, Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 2001, p. 209.
• "Commercial-in-Confidence: An Obituary to Transparency?, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 60, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 92-109.
• "Eating Its Own: The Whistleblower Organisation in Vendetta Mode". Australian Journal of Social Issues, 32 (1), February 1997, pp. 37 60.

• "Flapping on Clipped Wings: Social Work Ethics in the Age of Activism", Australian Social Work,50 (4), December 1997.
• The British Whistleblower Protection Bill., A Shield Too Small?", Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 27, 1997, pp. 139 163.
• "Rejoinder", Alternative Law Journal, 21 (2), April 1996, pp. 91 92.
• "Whistleblowers", Corruption Matters, March/April 1996, p. 5.
• "The Welfare Whistleblower In Praise of Troublesome People" Australian Social Work , 49 (3), September 1996, pp. 15 24.
• "Behold the Shut Eyed Sentry: Whistleblower Perspectives on Government Failure to Correct Wrongdoing", Crime, Law and Social Change (with C. Jan), 24 (2), 1996, pp. 151 166.
• "Public Interest Disclosure Laws in Australia and New Zealand. Who Are They Really Protecting? Alternative Law Journal, 20 (6), December, 1995, pp. 270 281.
• "A Bill for Whistleblowers or for Lawyers?", The Whistle (UK), Vol. 3, (8 & 9), November 1995, pp. 17 31.
• "Quarantining Dissent: The Queensland Public Sector Ethics Movement, Australian Journal of Public Administration, December, 1995.
• "Critical Pedagogy and the Forgotten Social Work Student: The Return of Radical Practice", Australian Social Work, March 1993.
• "Grouped Proceedings and Speaking Out: Activism at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Admin Review, No.37, 1993.
• "Whistleblowing in the Queensland Public Service", in Facing the Future: Eco-Politics VII Conference Proceedings, July 1993.
• "Mediation & Adjudication: Friends or Foes at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Federal Law Review, 20:2, 1992, 276 292.
• "Social Work and Mediation: Hemlock in the Flavour of the Month", Australian Social Work, 45(1), March 1992, 17 28.
• "Vacuum Cleaning the Community of Conflict, Australian Journal of Law & Society. 1992.
• "Sterilising the Queensland Whistleblower", Australian Journal of Social Issues, 27, (4), November 1992, 248 26.
• "On the trail of a Radical Pedagogy for Social Work", British Journal of Social Work, 22(3), June 1992, 231 252.
• "Alive on the Streets, Dead in the Classroom: The Return of Radical Social Work and the Manufacture of Radicalism", Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. IX: 3, September 1992, 137 158.
• "Radical Teaching for Radical Times: Exploring the New Social Work Pedagogy" Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1992.
• "Discounting in Paradise: The Inglorious Start to the 1943 National Welfare Scheme". Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 78 (1&2), June 1992, 17 29.
• "Social Security Advocacy at the Brisbane Welfare Rights Centre:
• Second Class Lawyers for Second Class Citizens? Alternative Law Journal, 17(6). December 1992, 266 270.
• The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Review: On Remaining Seated During the Standing Ovation", in J. McMillan (ed.), Administrative Law. Does the Public Benefit? (Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Canberra, 1992), pp.96 121.
• "1 Want my AAT", Polemic, 3:3, 1992, pp. 147 149.
• "Re possessing the Neo Conservative Classroom: Social Work Strategies for a Radical Pedagogy", Advances in Social Welfare Education, 1991.
• The Australian Wartime Budgets: The New Fiscal Gluttony", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 76:4, 1991, 274 296.
• "Better than Beveridge? The Start of the National Welfare Scheme in Australia", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 76:2, 1990, 140 52.
• "Exposing the AAT's Private Parts", Legal Service Bulletin, 6:1, 10 14.
• "Combat and Concern; The Warfare Welfare Nexus", War and Society, 1989, 71 86.
• "New Society Blueprint or Political Ploy? The Work & Impact of the Joint Committee on Social Security, 1941 46", Australian Journal of Politics & History, 35:2, 1989, 164-152.
• "White Welfare, Black Entitlement: The Social Security Access Controversy, 1939 59", Aboriginal History, 10: 1, 1986,25 39.
• "Dialectics and Domination: Reflections on Social Action", Australia & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 19:1, 1983, 50 78.
• "Fumbling with the Kaleidoscope: Worldview Clashes in Social Work", Canadian Journal of Social Work Education, 8:1 2, 1982, 31 43.
• "Empiricism: An Impoverished Philosophy for Social Work Research", Australian Journal of Social Work, 34:4, 1982, 3 8.
• The Dreaming and the Doing: Utopian Foundations of Social Action", Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 9:2, 1982.
• "Social Work as Social Critique", Australian Journal of Social Work, 32A, 1979, 9 13.
• "Advocacy Counselling: A Double Entry System of Social Welfare", Australian Journal of Social Work, 30:1, 1977, 5-8.
• "Australian Assistance Plan: Candle in the Wind", Australian Journal of Social Issues, 10: 1, 1975, 51 63.
• "The Psychiatric Industry. A Study of Shock Absorbers, Brakes and Blunt Tools", Australian Journal of Social Work, 27:2, 1974, 21 3.
• "Financial Assistance for Local Government", Australian Journal of Social Work, 27:4, 1974, pp. 31 38.
• "Social Welfare: Strategies for Social Development, Australian Journal of Social Work, 26:1, 1973, 11 19.
• "Deviance: A Social Story", Parole and Probation Journal of New South Wales, 2, 1973, 4 12.
• "The Mental Health Simplex", The Lamp: Journal of the New South Wales Nurses' Association, May 1973, 33 7.

Published Refereed Conference Papers And Subsequent Abstracts

• "Why is the President of Malawi Angry? Business Hegemony and the Politics of Corruption". 3rd International Conference of International Society for Business, Ethics & Economics, Cape Town, July 2008.
• "Friends across the Street? Amalgamating whistleblower and Protester Energy", National Whistleblowers Conference, Melbourne University, December 2008.
• "After the Scandal. Recovery Options for Troubled Financial Organizations", European Business Ethics Network, Bergamo University, Italy, 21-22 June 2007.
• "Measuring Corruption. Post-colonial Musings on why it is a Closed Shop", 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester University, 11-12 June 2007.
• "African Anti-Corruption Agencies - frolics in failure?" 6th Business Ethics Network-Africa, Addis Ababa, 1-3 August, 2007.
• "Banging Squares into Holes: How the West has failed to curb African 'Corruption'". Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, European Conference of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 3 July 2005.
• "Managing "Corruption" in Africa. Does the West Matter? Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge University, 5 July 2005.
• "Managing the Double Standard Organisation", 37th World Sociology Conference, Stockholm, 7 July 2005.
• "Whistleblower Protection: Is Africa Ready", Plenary presentation to 4th African Business Ethics Conference, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 3 September 2004.
• "Whistleblowing to the Stone Deaf: Managing the Double Standard Organisation". Paper to National CPA Congress, Brisbane Hilton, 22 October 2004.
• "Common Law - Common Mistakes: The Failure of Whistleblower Laws in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, canada and the United Kingdom", paper to International whistleblower Conference, University of Indiana, 12-14 April 2002.
• "Whistleblowing: New Legislative Initiatives", paper presented to seminar at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Hong Kong University, 16 April 2002.
• "A Smooth Road to Futility: The Victorian Whistleblower Protection Act, staff seminar, School of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, 3 May 2002.
• Australians for a Just and Civil Society, presentation, Brisbane, 2 April 2001.
• "Rescuing FOI: Rescuing Democracy", paper to inaugural Right to Know Conference, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney, 26-28 October 2001.
• "Prison Decisions: The Need for Reform", Address to Queensland Prisoners Legal Service Corrections 2000 Conference, Albert Park Hotel, 9 June 2000.
• "Commercial-in Confidence: Obituary to Transparency", Keynote address to CPA (Queensland), Audit Intensive Day, Brisbane Hilton 12 November 2000.
• "The Ethics of Openness", ethics discussion with Archbishop Hollingsworth, Audit Intensive Day, Brisbane Hilton 12 November 2000.
• Whistleblowing. The Great Betrayal. Paper presented to "Managing the Critical Issues of Fraud, Ethics, Accountability and Risk Management in the Public Sector", Sydney, 16 17 February 1998.
• Corruption in Queensland. Paper presented to Cooloola Social Justice Network, 17 March 1998.
• Academic Dissent. Paper presented to International Conference "Academic Freedom, Historical Integrity and Censorship", Adelaide Institute, 7 9 August 1998.
• Fridges That Don't Freeze; Planes That Don't Fly, Laws That Don't Work: Design Failure in Whistleblower Protection. Paper presented to Second National Whistleblowers Conference, "From Whistleblowing to a Culture of Dissent", Melbourne, 29 30 June 1996.
• Swinging From a Clean Rope: The Destruction of Academic Whistleblowers in the Age of Administrative Correctness. Paper presented to Second International Bullying Conference, The University of Queensland, 5 6 July 1996.
• Whistleblowing in the Commonwealth Public Sector. Paper presented to "Ethics in a Changing Environment", Seminar, Queensland Commonwealth Directions Development Committee, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, 6 August 1996.
• Casualties of Conscience: Whistleblowing in Australia. Paper presented to 5th International Conference of Public Sector Ethics, Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, 5.79 August 1996.
• Government Secrecy. Paper presented to Freedom of Press Conference, Bond University, September 1996.
• Moral Marginalisation in Social Work. The Exclusion of the Activist Social Worker in the AASW's Code of Ethics. Paper presented to the Third National Conference of the Australian Association for Applied Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 3 6 October 1996.
• The Storm Bird Calls: Wbistleblower Warnings in the Age of Corruption. Paper presented to "Whistleblowers: Protecting the Nation's Conscience" Conference, Department of Criminology, Melbourne University, 17 November 1995.
• The Queensland Whistleblower. Chipping Away at the Ethical Enamel. Paper presented to First National Conference, Australian Association for Applied and Professional Ethics, Adelaide, 23 24 April 1994.
• Whistleblowing and Unions: From Public Promise to Private Betrayal. Paper presented to Public Sector Union Conference, Hobart 16 May 1994.
• The Community Sector Whistleblower: Dismantling the Lone Crusader. Paper presented to Third Human Services Conference, Tasmania Council of Social Service, 17 May 1994.
• Open Spaces, Secret Places: Work Place Violence in the Queensland Public Sector.' Paper presented to Beyond Bullying Conference, Southport, 5 August 1994.
• Queensland Wiistleblowers: Fugitives From Injustice. Paper presented to Annual Conference of Royal Institute of Public Administration (Qld Branch) Brisbane, 14 October 1994.
• Beyond the Harassed Hero: From Dissenting Individuals to Dissenting Cultures. Paper presented to First National Whistleblowers Conference, Canberra, March 1993.
• Whistleblowing in the Queensland Public Service. Paper presented to Symposium, "Social Responsibility in Science", Ecopolitics VU Conference, Griffith University, July 1993.
• The Welfare Whistleblower: In Praise of Difficult People. Paper given to 1993 Annual Conference, Australian Association of Social Work, Newcastle, September.
• Blaming the Circuit Breaker: Early Messages from the Queensland Whistleblower Study. Research Seminar, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Queensland, 4 June 1993.
• The Welfare Whistleblower: In Praise of Difficult People. Paper presented to 23rd National Conference of Australian Association of Social Workers, Newcastle, 27 30 September 1993.
• The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Review: On Remaining Seated During the Standing Ovation, presented to the Annual Conference. Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Canberra, April 1992.
• Beyond Family Mediation; Structural Practice for the Sick Society, presented to First National Family Mediation Conference, Adelaide, August 1992.
• From Moralising to Mediation to Measurement to Mediation to Stopovers on the Social Work Road to Oppression, presented to National Conference Australian Association for Social Work & Welfare Education, October 1992.
• Captives and Keepers. Notes on a Servitude Culture at a Maximum Security Jail, presented to Prisons Towards 2000 Conference, Sir David Longlands Maximum Security Jail, December 1992.

Distinctions

• Churchill Fellowship 1977
• International Collaborative Research Award 1994

Academic Cluster

Management