{"id":12771,"date":"2021-09-01T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:30:20","slug":"government-and-one-nation-leave-women-unsafe-by-blocking-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/government-and-one-nation-leave-women-unsafe-by-blocking-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and One Nation leave women unsafe by blocking amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government and One Nation have blocked crucial amendments from the Greens and Labor that would have implemented the centrepiece of the\u00a0Respect@Work<\/a>\u00a0recommendations – a positive duty on employers to make workplaces safe.
\nGreens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe PM, as always, is missing in action. It took more than a year for the government to respond to the\u00a0Respect@Work<\/a>\u00a0report and the Bill they came up with fell woefully short – not only of the aims of the report, but also of the expectations of Australian women.
\n\u201cRespect@Work<\/a>\u00a0report set out a clear, holistic set of actions to address workplace sexual harassment. Central to that was a positive duty that would shift the onus away from individual workers who fear losing their job if they complain and instead require employers to make their workplaces safe.
\n\u201cThe government says existing workplace laws already do the job. The 40% of women who are sexually harassed at work say otherwise. All the young workers harassed in their first jobs say otherwise.
\n\u201cThe Greens and Labor put forward a joint amendment to do what the government failed to do and introduce a positive duty. The government joined with One Nation to block them.
\n\u201cThe PM says he\u2019s listening to women, and he says his government accepts all 55 recommendations of the\u00a0Respect@Work<\/a>\u00a0report. Yet today the government again ignored women and blocked a key recommendation from the report.
\n\u201cWith the willing help of his One Nation lackeys, the PM has once again failed women.
\n\u201cIt proves yet again that the PM views women as nothing more than a political problem to be managed, through spin and rhetoric.
\n\u201cThe government and One Nation had an opportunity today to show that they\u2019re not reactionary troglodytes, but they only served to remind Australian women just how important it is to boot them out at the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government and One Nation have blocked crucial amendments from the Greens and Labor that would have implemented the centrepiece of the\u00a0Respect@Work\u00a0recommendations – a positive duty on employers to make workplaces safe. Greens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said: \u201cThe PM, as always, is missing in action. It took more than … Continue reading “Government and One Nation leave women unsafe by blocking amendments”<\/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-12771","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\/12771","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=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}