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Australian jurisdictions are making strides to ensure consent means an active ‘yes’ rather than the absence of a ‘no’. But without better knowledge of these laws, they risk being just words on paper.
Affirmative consent involves a ‘yes’ rather than the absence of a ‘no’.
After years of advocacy by Saxon Mullins, NSW moves from a “no means no” to a “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent.
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Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Head of School and Dean, School of Law and Justice, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Officer, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Division of Health Research and Social Work, Lancaster University; La Trobe University
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Lecturer of criminology, University of Southern Queensland