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Sexual harassment at work isn't just discrimination. It needs to be treated as a health and safety issue

  • Written by Lisa Heap, Adjunct professor, Australian Catholic University
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There has been little comfort for AMP’s female employees in the corporate heavyweight’s bid to put its sexual harassment scandal to bed.

Nor, for that matter, women in any workplace.

The resignations of AMP’s chairman David Murray and board member John Fraser this week were the culmination of events beginning with a re...

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