Inquiry examining national differences in consent laws

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A parliamentary inquiry is looking into whether Australia should nationalise sexual consent laws. The inquiry will look at requiring 'affirmative consent' between sexual partners.

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00:00 The message is that affirmative consent needs to be legislated in every jurisdiction around

00:05 Australia.

00:07 It is the minimum principle we need to make sure that survivors are going through a system

00:12 that's going to treat them fairly and treat their stories fairly.

00:16 You - a juror or a judge can turn their mind to those things as mitigating factors for

00:21 why an accused could have thought that there was consent involved.

00:26 Affirmative consent removes those things and it makes it less likely for these rape myths

00:33 that we often see introduced into trials.

00:36 It leaves less room for those and it just makes the court experience a better experience

00:40 for survivors and it means that we're focusing on the right things when we're going through

00:45 the criminal justice process.

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