Ex-Labor staffer accused of child exploitation, Benjamin Waters, to undergo mental health check
By Richard Davies
Benjamin Waters was arrested following an investigation by SA Police and the AFP.
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A former South Australian Labor staffer charged with producing and possessing child exploitation material will remain in custody until a mental health assessment is carried out.
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He has applied for home detention bail, but a report has raised concerns
The former staffer to SA Labor MP Nat Cook was expelled from the party last week
He has applied for home detention, but a report into the suitability of his accommodation has raised concerns.
Now, almost a decade after Gillard’s famous intervention, this institutionalised sexism is back in the spotlight after a former female politician told The New York Times (NYT) that the Australian parliament was “the most unsafe workplace in the country”.
Amid a growing list of misconduct and even rape allegations, PM Scott Morrison has enlisted Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner to investigate the country’s political culture.
#MeToo moment
has arrived, late but strong, like a tsunami directed at the country’s political foundation”.
A tidal wave of testimony has poured in since a former political adviser claimed in an interview with TV channel Network 10 in February that she was raped by a senior colleague in Australia’s Parliament House.
Woman living with a disability speaks out one year on from Ann Marie Smith s death
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Disability care recipient Ann Marie Smith died last year, sparking a criminal investigation by SA Police.
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It has been one year since Ann Marie Smith died in horrific circumstances, now another woman living with a disability says she fears she and others could meet a similar fate.
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Another woman living with a disability says she is in a similar situation
An advocacy group says SA is the only state that does not fund organisations like it
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Allegations of sexual assault levelled against staff in Australia's Parliament House in recent weeks have sparked many other women to also come forward and share their own experiences, including a former Australian foreign aid worker who says she was forced to kiss a senior male colleague during a work trip in Papua New Guinea.