Labor MP Len Kiely had been brought into the Ministry when Henderson became Chief Minister, but a past incident where he had been forced to resign as Deputy Speaker over a drunken incident
involving verbal sexual
harassment became central to the local campaign and led to Kiely's defeat.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA) defines «workplace violence» as «violence or the threat of violence against workers» that
involves any physical assault, threatening behavior, or
verbal abuse occurring in, or related to, the workplace, and includes behaviors ranging in aggressiveness from
verbal harassment to murder.