After more than a year of delays, it\u2019s about time Scott Morrison did something to respond to the Respect@Work report about sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.
\nLabor will look carefully at the detail of the Government\u2019s response. We are glad that the Government has agreed to a number of the report\u2019s recommendations. But we need to see what actions the Government will actually take, and what funding they will actually provide.
\nWe sincerely hope that the announcements made today will lead to lasting, positive change for Australian women. It is long overdue.
\nThis can\u2019t just be another Scott Morrison political fix.\u00a0Australian women want action from Mr Morrison, not just words.
\nIt shouldn\u2019t have taken an alleged rape in Parliament House and a litany of scandals to get the Liberals to act. There\u2019s no excuse for their delays.
\nIn the last 12 months, Scott Morrison could find time to introduce laws designed to cut people\u2019s pay, but he apparently couldn\u2019t find time to help stop sexual harassment. Talk about having his priorities all wrong.
\nThere\u2019s no doubt that women have fallen behind under the Liberals.
\nOver the last eight years, the Liberals have cut family benefits, childcare, schools, and Medicare. They\u2019ve abolished the Family Court. They\u2019ve tried to cut funding from respectful relationships education in schools. And they\u2019ve tried to make women in crisis drain their own superannuation accounts to be able to escape a violent relationship.
\nAustralia has slipped 26 places in the World Economic Forum\u2019s gender ranking since 2013. Australia is now in 50th place worldwide \u2013 the worst result ever.
\nAustralian women want real leadership.
\nWomen want a government that\u2019s on their side. That\u2019s what Labor will deliver with:<\/p>\n
After more than a year of delays, it\u2019s about time Scott Morrison did something to respond to the Respect@Work report about sexual harassment in Australian workplaces. Labor will look carefully at the detail of the Government\u2019s response. We are glad that the Government has agreed to a number of the report\u2019s recommendations. But we need … Continue reading “Labor: Government\u2019s Response to the Respect@Work Report”<\/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-10970","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\/10970","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=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}