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South Australian judicial officers and senior barristers have been accused of “rampant” sexual harassment and assault in a damning report, which cited one magistrate allegedly messaging a lawyer during a court hearing to say he imagined them “kneeling between his legs at the bench”.
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the nation’s most experienced mental health experts has quit his post with SA Health, blasting the department and State Government for failing to act on reform and demanding “some accountability on the department and the chief executive and the minister”.
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A state MP’s request for SA Parliament House to change its rules to allow breast and bottle-feeding in the chamber is still on hold after 18 months – despite it now being a recommendation of a recent damning review into sexual harassment at the North Terrace building.
Free pads and tampons will be made available to students in every South Australian public school, following a successful trial aimed at reducing “period poverty”.
A parliament-instigated inquiry into the prevalence of sexual harassment in South Australia’s legal profession is “unnecessary” and would hinder work already underway to address the issue, the SA Law Society claims, despite agreeing to cooperate with the investigation.
The State Government has backed a call for an independent investigation into workplace harassment within South Australia’s legal profession – despite stalling the approval of and highlighting the expense of a similar inquiry into potentially inappropriate behaviour at Parliament House.
South Australia’s judicial leaders have met to discuss the issue of bullying and harassment in the legal profession following a call for an independent inquiry.
