William De Maria had a long and controversial career at Dept. of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of QLD and has a long history of social activism. He is the author of Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia (Wakefield 1999) and is represented in Radicals in Australian Social Work edited by Carolyn Noble, Bob Pease and Jim Ife (Connor Court 2018).