Labor minister Anne Aly says she has witnessed and experienced 'instances of subtle racism and micro-aggressions' in parliamentary workplaces. Now she's calling for change.
Minister for Youth and Early Childhood Education Anne Aly wants a parliamentary code of conduct to cover racist behaviour.In the wake of scandals and damning reports into the culture in Australia’s parliamentary workplaces, a federal committee is developing a code of conduct governing MPs, senators and staff.
“No code of conduct that seeks to change workplace culture would be complete without acknowledging that these behaviours exist in our workplace, that they have a detrimental impact on workplace culture and severe effects on those who are subject to these behaviours,” she wrote. “As someone who identifies as a person of colour and CALD, I am concerned that racial harassment and racism are not included in the [inquiry’s terms of reference] with the risk being that they are excluded from the proposed codes of conduct.”
“Intersectionality theory recognises that an intersection of multiple forms of systemic discrimination and barriers produces greater disadvantage for groups of people who are not dominant and do not have equal access to power and privilege as the dominant groups,” the group wrote in its submission to the inquiry.
“And so, particularly where it's racialised sexual harassment or racial harassment, it's really important to call it out, to call it out as racial harassment or to call it out as racialised sexual harassment.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed to implementing the code of conduct following recommendations from Ms Jenkins' landmark review of workplace culture in Parliament House.
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