Section 1: Introduction
Workplace rights education for young people
Recommendation 9: Educational resources for young people of working age on
workplace rights be identified, adapted to ensure relevance to workplace sexual
harassment and promoted by the Australian Human Rights Commission and Fair Work
Ombudsman for use in schools, tertiary education institutions and other settings that
reach young people.
School-based respectful relationships education
Recommendation 10: All Australian governments ensure children and young people
receive school-based respectful relationships education that is age appropriate,
evidence-based and addresses the drivers of gender-based violence, including sexual
harassment.
Sexual harassment prevention by universities and other tertiary education institutions
Recommendation 11: Building on work already underway in response to the
recommendations in Change the course, all tertiary and higher education providers
deliver evidence-based information and training on sexual harassment for staff and
students that addresses the drivers of gender-based violence and includes content on
workplace rights.
Recommendation 12: Recognising that some smaller tertiary and higher education
providers lack the necessary resources and expertise to deliver the information and
training identified in Recommendation 11, the Australian Government should support
those providers to do so, for example through the Tertiary Education Quality Standards
Authority and the Australian Skills Quality Authority.
Media guidelines
Recommendation 13: The Workplace Sexual Harassment Council (as recommended in
Recommendation 14) work with the Australian Communications and Media Authority,
the Australian Press Council and Our Watch to promote and support best practice
reporting on sexual harassment by the media, including through:
a. guidelines that promote the safe, responsible, victim-centred and genderresponsive reporting of sexual harassment
b. practical measures that build the knowledge, skills and capacity of media
professionals to implement best practice reporting on sexual harassment.
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