What constitutes 'harassment'?

Harassment is any type of behaviour that:

  • the other person does not want AND
  • offends embarrasses or scares them AND
  • is sexual OR targets them because of their race, sex, pregnancy, marital status, transgender, sexual preference or orientation, disability or long term illness, age, family or carer's responsibility, social origin, political belief or lack of political belief, religious belief or lack of religious belief AND
  • in the circumstances a reasonable person should have expected would offend, embarrass or scare.

It is also harassment to:

  • bully or intimidate someone in a way that offends, embarrasses, humiliates or offends them AND
  • endangers that person's health or safety AND
  • in the circumstances a reasonable person should have expected would offend, embarrass, humiliate or offend them.