Queensland Public Interest Disclosure Record

Public interest disclosures under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 (Qld) and the records that identify the discloser: assessments, reprisal risk assessments, referrals to a proper authority and investigation files. Disclosure of a discloser's identity is an offence and exposes them to reprisal.

Type

regex

Engine

boost_regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

Medium: primary anchors are distinctive form titles and statutory terms, but they also appear in guidance, blank forms and statistics, so enforce tiers require populated record structure. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic records laid out like the published forms.

Jurisdictions

au

Regulations

Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)

Frameworks

QGISCF

Data categories

government, pii

Scope

narrow

Risk rating

9

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:public\s+interest\s+disclosure|PID\s+(?:assessment|register|coordinator|officer|file|reference|risk\s+assessment)|reprisal\s+(?:risk\s+)?assessment|Public\s+Interest\s+Disclosure\s+Act\s+2010)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

discloser, reprisal, proper authority, confidentiality, corrupt conduct, maladministration, substantial and specific danger, subject officer

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• PID assessment Date received: 04/09/2026 Discloser: Avery Teston (Senior Project Officer) Subject officer: Jordan Staffson, Manager Procurement Allegation: contract splitting to avoid tender thresholds. Assessed as a public interest disclosure (maladministration). Reprisal risk: high. — Populated record 1
• Reprisal risk assessment for the discloser in PID file 2026-017: the discloser works in the same team as the subject officer, and the allegation details make the discloser readily identifiable. — Narrative record 2 without labelled fields (reaches 65 discovery only, by design)
• The public interest disclosure made by Morgan Teston about falsified inspection records was referred to the Crime and Corruption Commission as the proper authority on 11/09/2026. — Narrative record 3 without labelled fields (reaches 65 discovery only, by design)

Should not match

• A public interest disclosure is a disclosure about wrongdoing in the public sector that serves the public interest. Disclosers are protected from reprisal under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010. — Guidance or explainer text
• PID assessment form Date received: ____ Discloser: ____ Subject officer: ____ Type of wrongdoing: ____ — Blank form
• Queensland agencies reported 1,684 public interest disclosures in 2024-25, according to the Queensland Ombudsman's annual report. — Aggregate statistics or news

Known false positives

• Guidance pages, fact sheets, policy and training text that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated record fields; guidance uses the labels without values.
• Blank forms and form kits. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc values are rejected.
• Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person or reference fields, so these stay at 65 discovery.

References

• Queensland Ombudsman — What is a public interest disclosure