INTERVIEW: Chanel Contos reflects on the first year of the sexual consent curriculum

Founder of Teach Us Consent Chanel Contos (AAP)

Founder of Teach Us Consent Chanel Contos at the National Press Club in Canberra Source: AAP / MICK TSIKAS

Chanel Contos is the founder of Teach Us Consent - an organisation which has campaigned for providing holistic consent and sexuality education since February 2021. Following their petition, which gained more than 44 thousand signatures of support, Ministers of Education from around Australia in February 2022 unanimously committed to mandating holistic and age appropriate consent education in every school from foundation until year 10.. which came into effect at the beginning of 2023. SBS Audio's Catriona Stirrat spoke to Chanel about how she feels the first year of the curriculum implementation has been received by students, teachers, parents and the wider community


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