In the media
Legal Aid Victoria: Robust law reform is crucial to
ensure respect at work
A key recommendation that Victoria Legal Aid and other
legal and community services support is a more proactive and
preventative approach from employers, that lifts the burden from
victims of harassment. This includes an enforceable positive
duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (08 April 2021).
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Australian Government s response to Respect @Work
report
In A Roadmap for Respect: Preventing and Addressing
Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces (the Roadmap for
Respect), the Government provides its response and sets out its
long-term commitment to preventing and addressing sexual harassment
In the media
Australian senate endorses news media bargaining
code
Latest approval takes bargaining code between news media
companies and Google and Facebook a step closer to law.
Australia s controversial and internationally debated News
Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into
legislation following the Senate s decision to pass the Media
and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill
2020
.(12 February 2021).
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Government moving in the right direction on Federal
Judicial Commission
The Law Council of Australia has long advocated for the
establishment of a standalone Federal Judicial Commission and
considers the government is moving in the right direction by
Foreign Relations Bill set to increase federal government
oversight of state and territory arrangements
Last week, Australia s Foreign Relations (State and
Territory Arrangements) Bill 2020 (
Bill) passed
both houses, bringing state and territory government arrangements
with foreign territories within the domain of federal government
oversight.
The Bill is intended to ensure consistency between state and
territory arrangements and the broader national interest by
allowing the federal government to veto arrangements that are
inconsistent with Australia s foreign policy or that may
adversely affect relations with a foreign country. The Bill means
that the federal government will be able to ensure that state and