Brittany Higgins has shown true courage. Ms Higgins\u2019 account of her rape in the Defence Minister\u2019s office is sickening. We admire Ms Higgins\u2019 bravery in coming forward, and hope she is now getting the genuine support and justice she is entitled to and the police investigation proceeds swiftly.
\nThere is a clear need for a review into the workplace culture at Parliament House and electorate offices.
\nTo ensure that the review has the confidence of the public and of parliamentary staff, it must be truly independent with bipartisan oversight. To ensure that, the review should be led by an expert from outside of government.
\nSimilar reviews, including of the Australian Defence Force, and the parliaments of Victoria, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, were all led by experts from outside government.
\nThe terms of reference for the review, the conduct of the review and the implementation of its recommendations, should be overseen by a bipartisan group of federal parliamentarians.
\nStaff should be given the opportunity to participate fully and for their voices to be heard in a confidential and respectful way.
\nThe Presiding Officers have responsibility for the control and management of Parliament House. As such, they must also play a role in the review.
\nThe aim of an independent, bipartisan review should be to ensure the safety of anyone who works at Parliament \u2013 parliamentarians, their staff, all staff of the parliament and others who come in contact with them.
\nWe would expect the review to examine issues including:<\/p>\n
The Australian Labor Party is in the final stages of adopting an updated version of its existing harassment processes and policies. Brittany Higgins has shown true courage. Ms Higgins\u2019 account of her rape in the Defence Minister\u2019s office is sickening. We admire Ms Higgins\u2019 bravery in coming forward, and hope she is now getting the genuine support and justice she is entitled to and the police investigation proceeds swiftly. There is a clear need for a … Continue reading “LABOR STATEMENT ON REVIEW INTO WORKPLACE CULTURE AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe renew the offer made on 12 November, 2020 to work with anyone in this building who wants to make this a safer and more respectful workplace.
\nAll workplaces around Australia need to be safe.
\nA good place to start would be implementing the recommendations of the\u00a0Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces\u00a0<\/em>which was presented to the Federal Government in March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"