Tag: cyberbullying
Tax office admits it gave ‘unacceptable’ response to MTR complaint re sexist tweet
Apologies for the way I was treated and undertakings to improve It wasn’t easy doing this. But now the Australian Public Service Commission and the Australian Tax Office is on the record on oath saying that policy and practice will change for the better. This is how the ABC reported it: The head of the […]
Sexism, social media and bureaucratic accountability: what happens when a public servant calls for naked pics of a female writer?
Your taxes at work: harassment and intimidation treated with indifference – why I went public There’s a feature piece in The Australian today by Chris Kenny. ‘The Unkindness of Strangers’, subtitled: ‘When an ugly post goes viral via social media, victims find there is very little they can do about it.’ Sexism, pornography, social media, […]
ABC 4 Corners lifts the lid on suicide’s anguish: a must-watch program for all who care about young people
One suicide is a tragedy. But what happens when a community is rocked by a series of suicides, one after another, all of them young people? Do the families mourn in private, fearful that expressing their grief publicly could result in more deaths? Or does the community come together, so that individual families can tell […]
