Queensland will review its sex education protocols in schools after learning of a sexual abuse epidemic among teenagers.
Chanel Contos, a 22-year-old Kambala School alumni in Sydney, drew attention to the crisis after creating a petition demanding more thorough lessons on consent in classrooms.
What started as a Sydney-based petition highlighting a damaging culture among elite private schools soon spread nationwide.
Some 5,000 victims have shared harrowing testimonies of being sexually abused as teenagers - with some not realising until years later that they were victims.
The 22-year-old Kambala School alumni received up to 5,000 responses from women sharing harrowing stories of sexual abuse while attending some of Sydney s most elite private schools
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Subscriber only A sweeping review into sexual consent education and reporting in Queensland schools has been ordered after shock sexual assault allegations emerged involving the state s biggest public and private schools. Assault and harassment allegations have now been made against students from a number of Queensland public schools including Kelvin Grove State College and Brisbane State High School students. Mossman State High School, Lockyer District High School and William Ross State High School were also named. A Department of Education spokeswoman said yesterday while schools provided respectful relationships education, it is primarily up to parents and carers to educate children about sexuality and relationships .
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The rundown High Flyers building has been the focus of public probes into the death of Owen Wildbore-Brumby, who was found in Te Marae o Hine/The Square in February.
A city eyesore is at the focus of public probes into the death of a Palmerston North man, but police remain tight-lipped about the building’s relevance to the case. Friends of Owen Charles Wildbore-Brumby, 40, a familiar street dweller whose body was found in Te Marae o Hine / The Square on February 16, fear the nearby High Flyers building may hold some clue to his fate. Wildbore-Brumby s bike was found tied up outside the rundown building on the edge of the park, and there were claims of blood being found inside the former nightclub.