{"id":17123,"date":"2022-06-23T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17123"},"modified":"2022-06-23T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:53:29","slug":"sexual-harassment-against-women-in-the-fifo-mining-industry-must-end-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/sexual-harassment-against-women-in-the-fifo-mining-industry-must-end-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry must end now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Greens are shocked, disgusted, and appalled to learn today of the staggering rates of sexual assault, violence and predatory behaviour against women on mining sites across WA today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis is the mining sector\u2019s #MeToo moment. The culture of abuse has to stop. The culture of secrecy has to stop.<br>\u201cThe mining sector now has a choice &#8211; they can choose to see this culture of violence continue and sweep this issue under the carpet, or they can step up and end this horrific culture of abuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe need this sector to take abuse in all its forms seriously &#8211; to invest in prevention education &#8211; and for structural change, and urge the sector to implement all 24 recommendations of this review as a matter of urgency.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens spokesperson on Women said:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis report recognises the vulnerability of women working on FIFO sites and has come about because of their bravery in sharing their stories.&nbsp; Its recommendations must be implemented.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere are many recommendations in this report that Federal parliament should also take note of.&nbsp; When parliament resumes, we will be pushing for parliament to set the standard for safe and respectful workplaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEvery person in every workplace should expect to be safe and respected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCommissioner Jenkins laid out a clear pathway for reform in the&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Respect@Work\">Respect@Work<\/a>&nbsp;report, including a positive duty on employers to make workplaces safe. Labor has promised to implement those recommendations and the Greens will hold them to that pledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Greens are shocked, disgusted, and appalled to learn today of the staggering rates of sexual assault, violence and predatory behaviour against women on mining sites across WA today. \u201cThis is the mining sector\u2019s #MeToo moment. The culture of abuse has to stop. The culture of secrecy has to stop.\u201cThe mining sector now has a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/sexual-harassment-against-women-in-the-fifo-mining-industry-must-end-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry must end now&#8221;<\/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-17123","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\/17123","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=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17124,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions\/17124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}