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