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  • ‘People can’t shut their eyes to it anymore’: SA legal inquiry sparks change

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    Commissioner Jodeen Carney told InDaily she welcomed the fact the total number of sexual harassment complaints made to her office had “trended downwards” over the past year, but cautioned problem behaviour was likely still occurring within the legal fraternity. The “review of harassment in the legal profession”, commissioned by state parliament and released last April,…

  • ‘Right to be cynical’: Commissioners slam MP draft code of conduct

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    A joint parliamentary committee set up to draft a code of conduct for MPs yesterday finally handed down its suggested wording – seven months after a report by the state’s acting Equal Opportunity Commissioner detailed allegations of sexual harassment and a “rotten” and “toxic” workplace culture at Parliament House.  The draft code would supersede parliament’s…

  • Parliament’s go-slow on harassment report recommendations

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    In her first annual report, tabled in parliament this week, Equal Opportunity Commissioner Jodeen Carney said if it didn’t implement recommendations made in her office’s report, a new Parliament after the March election would need to pass another motion. The committee was set up in March in response to the Equal Opportunity Commission’s review into…

  • New ICAC laws set to push MPs beyond scrutiny for misconduct

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    The new legislation tightens the definition of misconduct to cover only “serious” and “intentional” breaches of codes of conduct, with a previous clause allowing the definition to cover other instances of misconduct deleted from the Act. Given there is still no code of conduct for members of the South Australian parliament, only for ministers, the…

  • SA businesses warned not to discriminate against people with mask exemptions

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    Acting Equal Opportunity Commissioner Colin Marsh told InDaily that between July 1 and September 15 this year, his office received around 20 disability discrimination enquiries and complaints from people who are unable to wear face masks while in public. He said the most common issues resulted from people being refused entry into a business or…

  • REVEALED: Parliament’s response to MP complainant

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    The complainant was told responsibility for the workplace health and safety of parliamentary staff involved a “significant sharing of responsibilities”, with “obligations not being reposed in one person or entity”. It comes as exiled Liberal Duluk today dramatically confirmed he would run as an independent at next year’s state election. Parliamentary processes for handling serious…

  • MPs, staffer implicated in vile behaviour as Duluk allegations escalate

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    The claims centre around several new allegations – many of them second or third hand – made under parliamentary privilege yesterday by Greens MLC Tammy Franks against embattled Liberal exile Sam Duluk. However the Waite MP hit back, calling Franks “a long-term political adversary” using “salacious” claims “designed to cause maximum political damage”. “I am…

  • SA Parliament to set up HR unit to tackle harassment

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    The “People and Culture Unit” will be independent of government and led by a senior coordinator and at least one other staff member, who will develop policies, investigate complaints and provide training to MPs and parliamentary staff about human resources matters. The Joint Parliamentary Services Committee is in the process of obtaining Crown Law advice…

  • ICAC proposes new way to tackle misbehaving MPs

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    Vanstone, who is both the state’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption and Judicial Conduct Commissioner, has written to a joint parliamentary committee warning that the current process for reporting sexual harassment in the parliamentary workplace is “unsatisfactory”. However, she has flagged her intention to quit the role as Judicial Conduct Commissioner, while maintaining her ICAC position.…

  • Top SA judges speak up over courts harassment

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    In a memorandum sent to all Courts Administration Authority staff this morning, seen by InDaily, Chief Justice Chris Kourakis, Chief Judge Michael Evans and Chief Magistrate Mary-Louise Hribal wrote that responding to “bad behaviour” should not be the sole responsibility of victims and that eliminating harassment was “everybody’s responsibility”. The judges said they were in…