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Andrea Waling, Senior Lecturer & Research Fellow, Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University

Australia’s new consent campaign gets a lot right. But consent education won’t be enough to stop sexual violence

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The Australian government has recently launched Consent Can’t Wait, a campaign focused on supporting sexual consent communication between adults and young people.

Advertisements will run on television, in cinemas, online and on social media, encouraging adults to check their understanding of consent. Videos pose questions such as “how do I bring up consent?”, “do I have to ask every time?” and “what if we’ve been drinking?”, before finally asking “if we don’t know the answers, how will our kids?”.

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