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Yet despite 12 years of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, whistleblowers are still vulnerable to </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>victimisation</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and dismissal. 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