Education
State to get tough on bullies
ATTORNEY-General Brian Wightman has vowed to review Tasmania’s anti-bullying laws.
The pledge by Mr Wightman comes in the wake of a public outpouring over the tragedy of Hobart schoolgirl Chloe Fergusson.
The review of the Criminal Code will determine whether laws preventing bullying need to be strengthened.
The move comes after the Mercury revealed how Chloe, 15, endured three years of physical and verbal abuse and cyber bullying before taking her life last week ( Emma Hope, Mercury: Chloe’s cause will live on forever )
• Simon Warriner, in Comments: Mr Wightman, if he is serious, can address bullying in the Tasmanian Public Service and in the process massively improve its health as a workplace and its efficiency as a service delivery mechanism. I give my permission to this site to pass on my contact details. I will show him a chink in the armour to stick the crow bar in. I live with the damage done by a bully …