Dozens of complaints of the most serious workplace offences, including rape and sexual assault, may go unreported each year, after parliament’s employee support service altered its reporting methods.

The service, which received 40 complaints of bullying and 28 instances of harassment during its second year of operations, has been slammed by a senator who alleged she was sexually harassed in Parliament House. Victorian independent Lidia Thorpe said the service was potentially hiding misconduct from the public under the proviso of protecting complainants’ privacy.

A senator has alleged she was sexually harassed in Parliament House in Canberra. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

The number of complaints of rape or sexual assault, sexual harassment, assault, and stalking and intimidation was not

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