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Anti-Bribery and Corruption

A plain-English awareness course on recognising and preventing bribery and corruption at work. Learn what bribery, kickbacks and conflicts of interest look like, how Australia's foreign and domestic bribery laws in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) work, how to handle facilitation payments, gifts and hospitality and how to report concerns safely, with diagrams, quick self-checks and a real workplace decision scenario.
What You Will Learn
- Recognise the difference between bribery, corruption and legitimate business conduct
- Outline the key Australian laws, including the foreign bribery offences in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)
- Apply your organisation's rules on facilitation payments, gifts and hospitality
- Identify and manage conflicts of interest before they cause harm
- Explain your reporting obligations and the whistleblower protections that apply when you speak up
Course Content
- Bribery and corruption, in plain English
- By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Corruption is abusing a position of trust for private gain
- Corruption wears many faces
- A bribe doesn't have to be cash
- It's the offer that counts: the deal doesn't have to succeed
- Australia's bribery laws sit mainly in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)
- Bribing a foreign public official is a serious crime, even when it happens overseas
- Since September 2024, companies must actively prevent foreign bribery
- Corruption at home is policed too
- A facilitation payment speeds up a routine task, and it's a legal minefield
- Gifts and hospitality are normal: the trouble is when they buy influence
- Telling a genuine gift from a bribe
- Before you accept a gift or hospitality, run this test
- A conflict of interest is when your private interests could sway your work decisions
- Conflicts come in three forms
- Having a conflict isn't misconduct: hiding it is
- Manage a conflict the moment you spot it
- If you see bribery or corruption, under your code of conduct and most workplace policies you have a duty to speak up
- How to raise a concern
- Who investigates corruption where you work
- The law protects people who speak up
- Now put it all together
- Winning the contract the right way
- The five things to carry away
Who This Course Is For
All staff, contractors, managers and officers in Australian organisations, public or private, who make purchasing, approval, hiring or relationship decisions or who deal with suppliers, agents or government.
Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 4 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 26 July 2026 and 31 August 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- LegislationCriminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)As at 26/07/2026
- LegislationCorporations Act 2001 (Cth)As at 26/07/2026
- LegislationPublic Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth)As at 26/07/2026
- LegislationFair Work Act 2009 (Cth)As at 31/08/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
has successfully completed
All learning modules and the final assessment
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
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- 100% online, self-paced
- Six months of access
Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
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