The Greens have called on all parties to pledge an end to Australia\u2019s culture of sexual violence, harassment and predatory behavior by committing to the three asks outlined by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins in their joint address to the National Press Club today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnyone who watched Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins at the Press Club today would have been been under no illusion about what needs to be done to end Australia\u2019s culture of sexual violence, harassment and abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey asked for three things from this parliament: to take abuse in all its forms seriously, to invest in prevention education, and for structural change. These are things that women have been demanding for years, and we call on all parties to commit to making this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens have already made that commitment. We\u2019ve pledged to deliver the $1 billion a year that the women\u2019s safety sector says it needs to fully fund frontline services, and we\u2019ve announced that we\u2019ll spend $477 million to support the four-year rollout of Our Watch\u2019s Respectful Relationships education in all public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA billion dollars a year is a tiny price to pay to ensure the safety of Australian women at work, at home and in public. This government spend 10 times that on subsidies to tax-dodging fossil fuel companies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government must also get on with implementing the remaining recommendations of the Respect@Work<\/a> report, most critically the positive duty on employers to ensure a safe workplace, and enact all 28 recommendations of Set the Standard, to reform the toxic culture in parliament and parliamentary workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone deserves to be free from harassment, bullying and sexual assault. It\u2019s just a tragedy that it\u2019s taken the sacrifices and public re-traumatisation of brave women like Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins to wake many people up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Morrison Government\u00a0knows what needs to be done. Let\u2019s get cracking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have called on all parties to pledge an end to Australia\u2019s culture of sexual violence, harassment and predatory behavior by committing to the three asks outlined by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins in their joint address to the National Press Club today. Greens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said: … Continue reading “Greens call for cross-party commitment to end culture of sexual violence and harassment”<\/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-14871","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\/14871","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=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14872,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions\/14872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}