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South Australia’s new Equal Opportunity Commissioner says she “hopes” that a parliamentary committee set up in March to act on recommendations arising from a damning review into sexual and other harassment inside Parliament House will respond before the end of the year.
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State Parliament has agreed to establish a specialised unit tasked with stamping out harassment at Parliament House, months after the Equal Opportunity Commission revealed findings of a “toxic” and “rotten” workplace culture.
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A sitting South Australian judicial officer has been accused of harassment, the Equal Opportunity Commissioner has revealed, after a respondent to the Commission’s recent inquiry into the state’s legal profession refuted a published claim that only former officers were accused of problematic behaviour.
South Australia’s chief justice Chris Kourakis says he was aware of allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the legal profession, but hasn’t been in a position to investigate the “open secret” for two decades.
Calls for an alcohol-free federal parliament might reduce risk factors but won’t fix the cultural problems besetting Canberra, argues Nicole Lee.
There is yet another sexual harassment claim in Parliament House, with Nationals MP Anne Webster making a complaint against somebody who harassed her last week.
The SA Law Society says it’s concerned about the prevalence of sexual harassment in the state’s legal profession, despite not receiving any formal complaints of harassment over the past two years.
