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More than half of people in the Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces (CPWs) have experienced at least one incident of bullying, sexual harassment, or actual or attempted sexual assault, a new report has revealed.
The Set the Standard report is the Australian Human Rights Commission's Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces. It sought the contributions of 1,723 people and 33 organisations. It was filed by federal parliament on Tuesday and was authored by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins.
"Over half (51%) of all people currently in Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces (CPWs) have experienced at least one incident of bullying, sexual harassment or actual or attempted sexual assault in a CPW. That is unacceptably high," Jenkins said in a statement.
"We found current systems and reward structures encourage, tolerate and enable misconduct and processes that are not equipped to prevent or address the consequences of that behaviour," she added.
In particular, the study found that women in CPWs and female parliamentarians have experienced sexual harassment and bullying at a higher rate.
Members of Parliament (Staff) Act experienced the highest levels of bullying, and actual or attempted sexual assault, in CPWs, as well as high levels of sexual harassment.
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