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Ending Domestic Violence - What Australia is Doing PART II

 Continued from previous post...         6. ENSURING SAFETY IN ALL SETTINGS This seeks to ensure that there is high quality Respectful Relationships Education in Schools Building awareness of sexual violence in mainstream services among health professionals   and frontline workers Safety at work   All 55 recommendations of the Respect @Work Report will be implemented including the establishment of Women’s Centres in each State. The Australian Government has ratified the International Labour Organization's Convention 190 (Violence and Harassment Convention). It will come into effect on June 9, 2024.   Ratified by 39 countries to date, it includes the right to safety and dignity at work and places a duty of care on employers to take a pro -active approach to prevention, protecting, enforcement, training and awareness As of March 6, 2023 the Australian Government has also amended the Fair Work Act 2009 to expressly ban sexual har...