Government launches new campaign to get you to talk to your kids about consent
ABCIn short: A new campaign is aiming to get parents to talk about consent with their kids. There's a 20-page guide for adults to talk to children of varying ages about consent, using prompts like "Even if your friends said yes to the wrestling game, if someone says 'stop', you have to stop straight away … Can you think of a time you needed to stop a game?" The government's panel advising on the campaign included Sydney Medical School's Dr Melissa Kang, Laurel House sexual assault service's Kathryn Fordyce and consent campaigner Chanel Contos, among others. Campaign comes amid criticism The new campaign comes amid criticism of the federal government by frontline violence workers for not investing enough in women's safety services. But frontline services, legal centres and sexual violence response organisations said the government must do more with some labelling Labor's claim of substantially boosting funding to women's safety as "trickery and deception."
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