Last week former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick released her report into bullying, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct in the NSW parliament.
The headline statistics are alarming.
Almost a quarter of women and 14% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment in a parliamentary workplace in the past five years. Even those with power are not safe, with almost half of women MPs stating they had been harassed. More than half of bullying incidents were perpetrated by an MP.
Parliamentary workplaces are sexualised environments and young women are particularly targeted.
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