Sky News host Rowan Dean says the government’s acceptance of 55 recommendations of the Respect@Work report is “one more disastrous step” towards removing the “rights and dignity of the individual”.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney General Michaelia Cash announced on Thursday the government has accepted all 55 recommendations of the report including making sexual harassment a sackable offence.
Mr Dean said it was “inner-city left-wing academic social engineering” which will hurtle society back to the “repressive 1950s” where sexes did not mingle.
“Worse, young men will simply shun females in the workplace; Women who are self-assured, beautiful, witty, extroverted, articulate and fun will become lepers,” he said.
“The wonderful camaraderie, friendships and equality between the sexes that grew out of the freedoms of the 1960s and 70s and made the modern workplace such a vibrant and exciting place to be will disappear.
“Replaced with a paranoid, dispiriting, dreary, joyless socialist No Jokes zones where everyone is treading on eggshells, fearful of who will point the finger at them for glancing in the wrong way, for saying the wrong words, for laughing or smiling at the wrong moment.
“Let me brutally clear here to all you halfwits in the Liberal Party, the losers of all this will ultimately be talented young women.
“Bright, smart, fun-loving young women will become pariahs, unable to form bonds with senior males who simply will not take the risk of being seen to favour them, as well as feared and distrusted by their male peers who will soon learn that they cannot risk even the slightest rapprochement with them.
“This is one more disastrous step towards removing the rights and dignity of the individual, removing the presumption of innocence, removing due process and equality before the law, and finding imaginary sins where none may actually exist.
“We are tearing apart the fabric of our society and replacing it with mistrust, fear and paranoia. It will take many many years to put it all back together again.”