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Australians will be prodded to brush up on consent as part of a national push to educate children and end gender-based violence in a generation. The campaign was informed by consultation with a panel of sexual violence and consent experts, including Teach Us Consent campaigner Chanel Contos.
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The concern about porn and social media is supported by youth-led advocacy group Teach Us Consent, which heard from more than 7,000 Australian teens who were victims of sexual violence, many of them girls.
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“It’s something that happens every single day and no one talks about it, and it happens to children and it happens to teenagers... Maybe the same boys who sexually assault people as teenagers take advantage of people in the workplace when they’re in powerful positions.”
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Funding for consent education has been given a $3.5 million boost to assist in reaching the goal of ending violence against women and children in one generation. Teach Us Consent will expand its work on educating people aged 16 years and above on sexual violence and consent, with funds allocated from the 2023-24 budget.
It’s a sex crime in four states, yet only 15 per cent of Australians know what stealthing is. Here, consent advocate Chanel Contos writes for marie claire about the complexities of this unique form of sexual violence, and four people who have experienced stealthing share their stories to help fight for change.
Education ministers across the nation "unanimously" agreed today to implement holistic and age-appropriate consent education in every Australian school… The pioneer of the change, Chanel Contos, began petitioning on social media a year ago demanding better consent education in schools.
Last week Teach Us Consent founder Chanel Contos hosted an online roundtable event with key ministers and stakeholders to discuss how respectful relationships, sex, and consent education is best embedded in Australia's national curriculum.
On Thursday, Teach Us Consent convened a roundtable, bringing together experts, political leaders and people with lived experience to discuss how respectful relationship, sex and consent education is best embedded in the national curriculum.
A former Sydney schoolgirl has called for “sexual consent education” to be taught much earlier after an online petition was swamped with testimonies from young women, some of whom say they were 13 when they were sexually assaulted by their male peers.
