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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.
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SA’s Equal Opportunity Commissioner Niki Vincent will quit next month to take up a comparable role in Victoria – citing the eastern state’s “nation-leading” new laws as the reason for her move – but insists an already-overdue inquiry into workplace harassment in SA Parliament will not be further delayed by her departure.
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State Parliament’s newly-elected Speaker and President will be asked to urgently grant South Australia’s Equal Opportunity Commissioner permission to investigate workplace harassment in parliament – weeks after a report was originally due to have been handed down.
The commissioner tasked with carrying out an independent investigation into workplace harassment in state parliament says she is still waiting for parliament’s permission to launch the inquiry – with a final report due to be handed down a month from today.
A religious pamphlet placed in letterboxes in an Adelaide suburb has exposed what lawyers call a “grey area” between state and federal anti-discrimination legislation, prompting renewed calls for a Charter of Human Rights.
An independent third party will be brought in to investigate claims of misconduct against Liberal backbencher Sam Duluk, with the Equal Opportunity Commissioner approached about leading the inquiry, InDaily can reveal.
A simmering dispute between the state’s Attorney-General and Equal Opportunity Commission has once again flared, with the Commissioner branding Vickie Chapman “vindictive” after she accused it of not doing enough to curb disability discrimination.
