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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