Workplace remedies needed in combatting sexual harassment
By Jerome Doraisamy|11 April 2021
Making workplaces more accountable for what happens under their roofs may be part of the solution in stamping out sexual harassment and other forms of misconduct.
Speaking recently on The Lawyers Weekly Show, ANU College of Law student Madeleine Castles (pictured) argued that while it remains essential for claimants to be able to pursue claims through the courts and seek damages, the prospect of validation at a workplace level for said claimants is something that could be actively explored.
Ms Castles – who, together with ANU College of Law lecturer Kieran Pender and MinterEllison lawyer Tom Hvala recently published a paper in the
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Sweeping new powers for the AFP and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission could see innocent users of social media services such as WhatsApp deemed criminals.
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AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw at senate estimates last year.
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People who use social media platforms that others may use for crime, such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, could be deemed part of a criminal network and have their bank, email and other online accounts disrupted or seized under sweeping proposed police powers.
The new legislation creates three new kinds of warrants that would give the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) sweeping disruption and surveillance powers.
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Human rights activists have pushed for a new online surveillance bill to be culled, saying it s a draconian and extreme infringement on people s right to privacy.
Bill Rowlings, CEO of rights group Civil Liberties Australia, has called for the proposed Surveillance Legislation Amendment Identify and Disrupt Bill 2020 to be abandoned. These are particularly draconian and particularly bad, so my message would be to throw these out, start again and get some proper consultation from the beginning, he told SBS News. They are draconian, right wing, extreme, they are removing civil liberties and human rights from Australians.
Kieran Pender from the Human Rights Law centre presents a statement to a parliamentary committee.