Australian PM apologises for ‘terrible’ parliamentary culture after Canberra’s #MeToo reckoning

Apology was recommended by landmark review into workplace culture of bullying, abuse, harassment and sexual assault

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Australia's prime minister, Scott Morrison, along with other political leaders has apologised for the terrible things" that happened in parliamentary workplaces and acknowledged a culture of bullying, abuse, harassment and in some cases even violence" built up over decades.

Morrison's apology on Tuesday followed a landmark review by Australia's sex discrimination commissioner, Kate Jenkins, in 2021 into federal parliament's culture. The Jenkins review, which recommended a significant overhaul of the workplace culture, found one in three staffers interviewed had been sexually harassed.