Set The Standard

This week is a game-changer towards creating a safer, more respectful, and accountable environment within Australia’s parliamentary workplaces. Yesterday, Parliament passed a Bill to establish the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission (IPSC), an important step in improving the culture of Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces.

If parliamentarians can’t accept basic standards of behaviour, then how can we expect it elsewhere during times of falling social cohesion?

Morrison was yesterday at pains to emphasise that he “hears” the women of Australia, but is he capable of really listening?