CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses sexual assault.
Parliament House is set to hold a face-to-face training sessions in the coming months about how to deal with sexual assault, bullying and harassment, the ABC reports. The bad news is that the one-hour sessions will be optional for MPs and Senators.
The training comes after former Liberal staffer
Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped inside Parliament House by a then-colleague, as well as a spate of other sexual assault and harassment allegations to rock Australian politics.
The ABC has obtained tender documents for the upcoming training program – which is due to take place sometime after September – which would teach office mangers, chiefs of staff and Parliamentarians about what “behaviours do or do not constitute assault, sexual assault, sexual harassment and serious and systemic bullying and harassment.”