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Dangerous liaisons

Flirting with disaster in the Wokeplace

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

‘I thought you gave up flirting with the servants ages ago,’ Prince Philip reportedly told his former daughter-in-law Sarah, Duchess of York, when she made a show of her intimacy with them by ostentatiously calling each by his or her first name.

Presumably, there’ll be no calling people by their first names in Australian workplaces — or should that be wokeplaces? — now that the federal government has agreed to all 55 recommendations made to it by the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Respect@Work report.

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