Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that new behavioural codes of conduct developed by the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards, tabled today, will make parliament a safer place and set clear rules for behaviour in parliamentary workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi is a member of the Joint Select Committee and participated actively in the inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese behavioural codes and standards will make parliament a safer place for everyone who works at and visits this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m pleased that the report has acknowledged the intersections of discrimination that further marginalise First Nations people, people of colour, disabled people and LGBTQI+ communities, and the codes explicitly prohibit discrimination on these grounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have first hand experience of the damage that racism and sexism does to a person who doesn’t belong to the \u2018dominant norm\u2019 of white men in suits. There will now be a clear and unambiguous recognition that this is unacceptable \u2013 and that perpetrators will face consequences for their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe evidence we heard from witnesses showed an overwhelming desire for strong and enforceable codes, not meaningless platitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI really want to thank the courageous staff \u2013 current and former \u2013 who have spoken out about the toxic culture of parliament and have paved the way for a safer, more respectful, inclusive and diverse parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe codes were agreed to by consensus. They are a strong expression of this parliament\u2019s desire to do better. I look forward to their implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report of the committee is available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that new behavioural codes of conduct developed by the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards, tabled today, will make parliament a safer place and set clear rules for behaviour in parliamentary workplaces. Senator Faruqi is a member of the Joint Select Committee and participated actively in … Continue reading “BEHAVIOURAL CODES OF CONDUCT WILL MAKE PARLIAMENT A SAFER PLACE”<\/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-19338","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\/19338","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=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19339,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/19339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}