{"id":9135,"date":"2020-11-12T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:21:17","slug":"greens-call-for-parliamentary-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/greens-call-for-parliamentary-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Call for Parliamentary Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Senator Larissa Waters moved to bring on her Parliamentary Standards Bill this morning to address Parliament&#8217;s appalling ineffectual complaints process for staff suffering workplace bullying and harassment.<br \/>\nThe move follows the Morrison Government\u2019s refusal to even acknowledge there is a problem, following Monday\u2019s Four Corners investigation into sexual harassment within the Liberal Party.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Waters, Greens Leader in the Senate and Spokesperson on Women, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;This is Parliament&#8217;s Me Too moment.<br \/>\n&#8220;The existing complaints process is little known and far too weak, with no consequences for MPs or MOPS Act staff found to have breached the code.<br \/>\n\u201cInstead of trying to silence the ABC and downplaying his ministers&#8217; behaviour, the Prime Minister must act decisively to fix Parliament&#8217;s reporting processes so women feel encouraged to come forward, without fear of reprisal.<br \/>\n\u201cThe only people in Parliament facing repercussions for workplace harassment and bullying in this place are the complainants. We need to change that.<br \/>\n\u201cMorrison is more interested in saving face than taking action, so the Greens have stepped up to ensure Parliament is a safe and respectful workplace for all women.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens Parliamentary Standards Bill would create an independent parliamentary standards commissioner to investigate complaints, and, where complaints are upheld, censure, fine, or suspend offending MPs from Parliament.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want women to know that if they come forward with allegations of workplace harassment and bullying here, they will be heard and there will be consequences.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are bringing this bill forward so the Prime Minister cannot continue to sweep these issues under the carpet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Senator Larissa Waters moved to bring on her Parliamentary Standards Bill this morning to address Parliament&#8217;s appalling ineffectual complaints process for staff suffering workplace bullying and harassment. The move follows the Morrison Government\u2019s refusal to even acknowledge there is a problem, following Monday\u2019s Four Corners investigation into sexual harassment within the Liberal Party. Senator &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/greens-call-for-parliamentary-standards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens Call for Parliamentary Standards&#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-9135","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\/9135","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=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}