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Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. They evolve from discriminatory grounds, and have an effect of nullifying a person's rights or impairing a person from benefiting from their rights. When these behaviors become repetitive, they can also be defined as bullying.
The continuity or repetitiveness and the aspect of distressing, alarming or threatening may distinguish it from insult.

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  1. M

    QLD Harassment after 27 years?

    I am in Qld. I was married to R for 12 years, separated 27 years ago and divorced 25 years ago. He was emotionally and financially abusive but no reason for police involvement. We had no children and the split was not amicable. For years after, he continued to contact my extended family for...
  2. KMac83

    QLD What would you do? Protection Order? Harassment? Defamation? Anything?

    Bear with me.. will try to explain this in order of events and provide a little context to the restrictions/behaviors in play here. Fiancé has an ex wife. She has him under a DVO (long story short, but she made Fiancé believe their parenting orders were official consent orders, one weekend he...
  3. A

    QLD Can police involved? How can I claim harassment?

    Current status:: kid stayed with father as consent order for school holiday( basic consent order , court case still on going, more details will be mentioned at Registra) . The mother email everyday to father want father facilitate more video calls with kid and want father to showed photo of...
  4. I

    QLD Overseas Stalking and Harassment Question

    Hey there, If someone in ONT, Canada were to report an individual in Australia for stalking and harassment, to which the police identified the accused, and had a report in progress, would there be any follow up aside from a report being filed? Would there be any contact made to Law Enforcement...
  5. B

    NSW Sexual harassment compensation

    Hi, just wondering how to appropriately go about requesting damages for a sexual harassment claim where HR of the company I worked for was in breach of 3 different policies? This is noted in an official document but I’m not sure how or what to request in a formal letter
  6. J

    NSW What Legal Service is Available to Witness an Event to Prevent Workplace Harassment , Malice or Incompetence?

    I have an event scheduled in the future where some professionals are to ask me some questions for a thesis defence. I have had some previous experience where staff members at another university bullied me and repeatedly lied and asked some sophistic questions to undermine my performance. Is...
  7. J

    WA Blackmail or Harassment

    I would like to know if - a girl comes to me and saids , you don’t know who you are f—-ing with (her words ) and if you don’t pull your head in and let me do what I want I am going to get you charged with sexual-harassment. The other part is. Already file a complaint with the police. My question...
  8. C

    NSW Harassment

    My neighbour is harassing me by sending complaints to the EPA saying my car is too noisy He sent complaints in March and I had the problem addressed in March and received a letter from the EPA stating all was fine on the 17th April Now this neighbour had complained again and I have to comply to...
  9. P

    VIC Voicemail from interstate police- what to do?

    Hi all, new to this and naturally very worried, but tonight I heard a couple of voice messages from an interstate officer left to me Friday afternoon and today (Wednesday afternoon)- reason being a damaged phone but that's irrelevant. I have a feeling I know what it is about, and believe an ex...
  10. anon_19229

    VIC harassment q

    Stuck in a weird situation. Made some very harassing emails to another person A using an email address which contained my name. just to keep anon my last name is unique; but say my name is Nick Oastangeen and i used the email [email protected] Now person A knows my name (but probably...