Bullying expert Professor Giles Hirst agrees many organisations have bullying woven into the fabric of their work cultures

Are toxic workplaces down to a few bad apples? Or are larger organisational structures to blame?

Those are the questions being asked at workplaces across the country as they grapple with an explosion of bullying allegations.

Last month alone saw Opera Australia, the NSW Labor party, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the NSW Parliament all rocked by bullying scandals.

One report into the Australian music industry, released on Thursday, found that bullying was experienced by 76 per cent of survey participants at some point in their career.

Another landmark investigation conducted by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick has shown that the NSW Parliament’s work culture, as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet put it, has become “toxic and wrong”. In March, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed calls for a bullying inquiry into the death of Victorian senator Kimberley Kitching, who was allegedly ostracised by Labor colleagues before her death from a heart attack.

According to the author of a new study, most of us are unaware that certain organisational systems – rather than individual bullies – present the biggest risk for being bullied.

Professor Michelle Tuckey, a bullying expert at The University of South Australia points to the governing of people’s actual hours of work, overtime, rosters and pay as one example of the factors at play.

Her findings were published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology last week, drawing from 342 bullying complaints lodged with SafeWork South Australia.

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The Cycle of Distrust: “We find a world ensnared in a vicious cycle of distrust, fueled by a growing lack of faith in media and government. Through disinformation and division, these two institutions are feeding the cycle and exploiting it for commercial and political gain. Distrust is now society’s default emotion Nearly 6 in 10 say their default tendency is to distrust something until they see evidence it is trustworthy. Another 64% say it’s now to a point where people are incapable of having constructive and civil debates about issues they disagree on. When distrust is the default – we lack the ability to debate or collaborate..”

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The Rapper and his mates: authorities to probe links to crime figures

By Kate McClymont

The NSW Police and the Crime Commission have undertaken to examine alleged connections between organised crime figures and the Coronation Property group, which employed former National Party leader John Barilaro earlier this year.

At a Budget Estimates hearing this week Labor’s Adam Searle showed Police Commissioner Karen Webb, her deputy Dave Hudson and the Crime Commission’s Peter Bodor, QC, a photo which featured several high-ranking associates of the Alameddine crime family with Andy Nahas, whose company MN Builders shares an office with his brother Joe Nahas’s company Coronation Property.

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