This article contains references to rape and sexual abuse.
Incidents of sexual assault have one crucial thing in common - education, or a lack of it.
That’s according to Chanel Contos, whose calls for a more comprehensive sex-ed curriculum have echoed across Australia in recent weeks.
The 22-year-old activist, who over the last three weeks has shared thousands of accounts of sexual assault and rape in Australian schools, says enthusiastic consent, slut-shaming and sexual coercion are among the key topics not being adequately taught to young Australian students.
“It shows that this problem goes across all of society into every institution, and it also shows that schools have a common denominator here and they can be the catalyst for change, Ms Contos told SBS News from London.