"The report is not worth the paper it is written on".

No surprises then - just like all the other feminist beatups, and the over-reactions of a cherry-picking PM: bad men; bad soldiers: bad Australia Post CEO crucified (bit of a surprise, the CEO being a woman).

During my 8 years in the WA Parliament, I encountered or heard about no examples of the sorts of problems described in the report. All sexual encounters (of which there were a few) between staff and/or parliamentarians were consensual and the only bullying was by a small number of individual MPs trying to raise their profiles so they would be considered ministerial quality.

The findings of the report on bad behaviour in the federal Parliament simply did not apply to the WA Parliament in my time there.

I would pull my head in if I were David Leyonhjelm on this or any other subject for that matter. A person who can yell across the Senate chamber at Sarah Hanson-Young during serious and much-needed debate on sexual violence against women and tell her to 'stop shagging men' is someone I certainly won't ever be listening to. I would have thought being forced to pay a $120,000 defamation suit might have taught him some contrition. But no, he's still out there doing all he can to undermine the disturbing and valid claims made by numerous women in parliament relating to sexual assault, harassment and bullying. Leyonhjelm obviously doesn't want his modus operandi curtailed in any way, but women across the country expect and are beginning to demand much higher standards from their elected representatives.

Non-consentual sex however framed or excused is still a criminal act and should be punished by the law as if true justice were a blind lady!

And the victims of the abuse of power should never be put on trial and further traumatised by the perps or their fellow travelers! No names no pack drill. But if the cap fits?
Alan B.

Bronwyn and Alan,

The point that David L is trying to make is that if you make the definition of sexual harassment so wide as to include overhearing a ribald joke, then you will get ludicrous results which are clearly what resulted from this survey which becomes even more ludicrous when idiots start claiming that 50% of women working in parliament have been sexually assaulted.

Since this grub left the Parliment I'm sure complaints have dropped. With Cry Baby Porter going next election there should be another decrease in complaints.