She has been fighting for consent laws to reflect affirmative consent since then.
Ms Mullins has said the reforms are an important step into changing the way that we talk about sexual violence and hopefully one small step towards ending it .
“I think affirmative consent really falls in line with how we should be engaging in sexual activity just on a day-to- day basis, she told SBS News previously.
“It’s about constant communication between consenting parties who are having that ongoing conversation of reassured consent. Making sure it’s legislated in the right way is really just making sure that we are legislating the way we should be speaking to each other anyway in these encounters.
Share on Twitter
People accused of sexual assault will need to prove they took steps to obtain consent, as part of a major overhaul of sexual consent laws in New South Wales.
NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman announced the reforms on Tuesday that he says will strengthen and simplify laws in the state and protect victim-survivors.
That includes adopting the so-called affirmative consent model, which means a person does not consent to sexual activity until they say or do something to communicate it.
It also means an accused person s belief in consent will not be reasonable unless they said or did something to ascertain consent from their sexual partners.
Share on Twitter
Australians fleeing family and domestic violence are increasingly accessing government-funded homelessness agencies, but not all requests for help are being met, a report reveals.
The Specialist Homelessness Services 2019/20 annual report shows 119,182 of 290,462 clients experiencing or at-risk of homelessness - or just over 40 per cent - had gone through some form of family and domestic violence.
That s up almost 3,000 people from 116,419 over the previous 12-month period, with women making up 90 per cent of adults in this category.
Just over half of clients under 18 were also affected by family and domestic violence, but it was less skewed along gender lines.