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On February 21, 2021, Channel Ten's The Project televised a report on the results of an online petition revealing widespread sexual assault of female students who had attended Australian private schools.
On February 21, 2021, 7 News televised a report detailing the work of a former Sydney student who is calling for sex education programs to be overhauled in schools after hundreds of female students came forward with claims of alleged sexual assault. An online petition calling for reformed education on consent has received thousands of signatures.
On March 21, 2021, Junkee televised an 8-minute segment outlining the history of sex education and consent education in Australian schools.
On July 28, 2019, ABC News televised a special report examining the state of consent education in Australia. It includes information on consent education in primary schools and comments on a new, compulsory online consent education course being conducted in Australian universities.
On March 2, 2017, BBC News televised a report on the decision for sex education to be compulsory at all schools in England, including relationship education from early primary school. The report includes a comment from Andrea Williams, a member of the Christian Concern lobby group, who opposes such education.
On May 14, 2019, One America News Network presented an attack on the sex education program being compulsorily taught in California which includes information on gender identity, transgenderism, masturbation, and bondage. The speaker argues that it should be parents who supply their children with such information and that it should not be compulsorily given within schools. (Please note, this report does not refer specifically to consent education; however, it does address the issue of drawing limits on what schools should teach within sex education.)
On May 10, 2019, The Heritage Foundation televised a report that seeks to limit what United States schools are teaching students on gender and sexual identity. The report argues that such issues should be presented to young people by their parents. (Please note, this report does not refer specifically to consent education; however, it does address the issue of drawing limits on what schools should teach within sex education.)
On September 25, 2018, VICE News televised a segment treating consent education in United States schools which includes teachers discussing with a group of adolescent boys what consent looks like.
On February 18, 2015, 5 News televised a debate between a parent and a primary school teacher on what is being taught in sex education in Britain. The parent argued that the instruction was too explicit and that parents were best placed to decide what their children needed to know.
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Should sexual consent be compulsorily taught in schools?
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On April 2, 2021, The Conversation published an article by Sharon O'Mara, PhD Candidate in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University and Kirsty Duncanson, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, titled 'Sexuality education can counter what kids learn from porn, but some teachers fear backlash when tackling 'risky' topics. The article outlines why sex education is needed and considers some of the problems teachers face in delivering it.
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On March 25, 2021, The Courier Mail published a report titled 'Consent education will not easily solve issues, expert warns' which outlines a number of reservations some authorities hold regarding consent education.
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On March 23, 2021, Pedestrian published a report titled 'HUGE: Victoria Just Made Sexual Consent Education Mandatory in All State Schools'. The report quotes Victoria's Education Minister and acting premier James Merlino announcing the change and explaining the reasons for it.
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On March 20, 2021, Mamamia published an article titled 'You are part of the problem": The captain of Brisbane Boys' College has a message for his peers.' The school captain was calling on his peers and all young men to adopt positive attitudes toward women.
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On March 15, 2021, Australian Presbyterian (the National Journal of the Presbyterian Church of Australia) published an article titled 'What is the Christian View of Sex Education and Consent?' which outlines a Presbyterian view of what actions should be taken to overcome the problem of sexual assault.
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On March 12, 2021, Junkee published an overview of the history and current state of consent education in Australia titled 'How Consent Education Fell Behind in Australia'.
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On March 12, 2021, social and political commentator Andrew Bolt interviewed federal Education Minister Alan Tudge for Sky News. During the interview Bolt indicated his opposition to consent education in schools.
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On March 11, 2021, Education HQ published an article titled 'Consent education for schools nationally' which referred to Respect Matters, a suite of education materials discouraging violence against women which the federal government plans to distribute to Australian schools.
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On March 11, 2021, the Greens Deputy Leader Larissa Waters issued a media release titled 'Government's consent education plan an insult to women and sexual violence survivors' which criticises the federal government's response to calls for consent education in schools.
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'In March 2021, Charlton Christian College posted on their website a message from the school's Principal and Head of Senior School titled 'Respectful Relationships and Consent' which outlined the school's response some of the issues surrounding sexual assault and young people.
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On February 27, 2021, 9 Honey published an article titled 'Grace Tame pinpoints flaw in consent education: "Undermines our collective ability to understand"'. The article presents some of Tame's criticisms of the current approach and suggestions for how it might be improved.
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On February 25, 2021, GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) published an article titled 'Sexual consent education needs an overhaul-how do we make it happen?' which outlines some of the deficiencies in the current program and suggests how they might be addressed.
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On February 23, 2021, The Conversation published an article by Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer at Curtin University titled, 'Not as simple as 'no means no': what young people need to know about consent' which outlines some of the problems young people face with sexual assault and suggests some key features of effective instruction regarding consent.
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On February 20, 2021, Chanel Contos, a consent education advocate, posted an online petition calling for improved and earlier consent education in schools. The petition includes 3,874 testimonies (as of April 4, 2021) from young women describing sexual assault as secondary school students or soon after leaving school.
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(Please note, some of the material contained in these testimonies is distressing. The site includes a trigger warning and contact numbers for Respect, Lifeline, Beyond Blue and the New South Wales child protection helpline.)
On February 11, 2021, The Hill published an article titled 'Utah rejects sex education classes that would teach consent' which details arguments for and against a Bill recently rejected in Utah that would have incorporated consent into the state's sex education program.
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On September 9, 2020, The Conversation published an article by Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer at Curtin University titled 'Relationships and sex education is now mandatory in English schools - Australia should do the same?' The article looks at the deficiencies in the Australian sex education program and suggests reform and compulsory status.
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On February 29, 2020, The ABC published a report titled 'Push to introduce mandatory, unified sexual consent lessons in Australian schools' which gives an overview of how sex education and consent are currently taught in each Australian state and territory.
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On January 8, 2019, Education Week' published an article titled 'We're Teaching Consent All Wrong' outlining some of the deficiencies in the United States' teaching of consent.
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On August 30, 2018, Salon published an article titled 'Could "consent education" really work to prevent sexual assault?' which outlines how consent education might be improved to make it an effective measure reducing the likelihood of sexual assault.
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On April 7, 2015, The Irish Times published an opinion piece by Jacky Jones titled 'Second Opinion: School-based consent education won't stop sexual violence'. The article argues that the problem lies with the perpetrator of sexual assault and that the solution is not consent education.
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On March 19, 2015 The Christian Institute published an article outlining the views of Paul Nuttall, the Deputy Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), opposing sex education in primary schools. The article is titled 'Primary school kids not ready for sex ed, says UKIP'.
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