{"id":5969,"date":"2025-04-04T01:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/australian-coalition-vows-to-keep-consent-education-in-curriculum\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:44:17","slug":"australian-coalition-vows-to-keep-consent-education-in-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/australian-coalition-vows-to-keep-consent-education-in-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Coalition Vows To Keep Consent Education In Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Coalition has promised to preserve sexual consent education in its planned curriculum review, despite Peter Dutton\u2019s push to remove \u201cindoctrination\u201d and focus on \u201ccritical thinking and common sense.\u201d <\/h2>\n

Introduced in 2022 with bipartisan support, the program teaches students about respectful relationships and consent. Liberal frontbencher Anne Ruston reaffirmed, \u201cWe\u2019re committed to its role in addressing gendered violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greek-Australian advocate Chanel Contos, who led the campaign for its inclusion, welcomed the unity. \u201cIt\u2019s a relief Australia hasn\u2019t followed the U.S. in politicizing this,\u201d she told the ABC. \u201cConsent should unite us in raising a respectful generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coalition spokesperson Sarah Henderson has called the curriculum, due for review next term, impractical, pointing to its 3,500-page math section. Labor\u2019s Jason Clare dismissed Dutton\u2019s approach as \u201cextreme,\u201d prioritizing basic skills. Some, like Minus 18\u2019s Adrian Murdoch, worry other programs could be at risk amid \u201cwoke agenda\u201d rhetoric.<\/p>\n