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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Asking For It is urgent, difficult viewing on Australia’s consent crisis

Jess Hill and Grace Tame in Asking For It, an SBS documentary about consent in Australia
Jess Hill and Grace Tame in Asking For It, an SBS documentary about consent in Australia. Photograph: SBS

In the last few years, the national conversation around sex in Australia has shifted urgently to one centred on the notion of consent. Particularly in a post-#MeToo world, there’s a growing understanding of how important it is to teach this at the most fundamental level.

Journalist Jess Hill’s new three-part docuseries folds in a host of voices to examine consent. It is, in many ways, a companion to her book and documentary See What You Made Me Do, which explored domestic abuse.

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