1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody, and welcome to the Daily Ods. It 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: is Wednesday, the ninth of March. I hope everybody had 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: a very special International Women's Day yesterday. Zara, you're going 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: to give me a rundown on both the Coalition and 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Labour's policies on consent education in today's deep dive, But 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: first quickly update us on the latest on Russia. 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 2: Yesterday, the Australian government announced new sanctions on Russia, with 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: ten people of strategic interest to Russia having been sanctioned 9 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: for their roles in promoting pro Kremlin propaganda. Financial sanctions 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: have also been directly placed on the armed forces of 11 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: the Russian Federation, as well as travel bands on six 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: senior Russian military commanders. 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: According to wheather Zone, Sydney is currently experiencing the wettest 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: start of the year on record, and I can personally 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: confirm that it is very wet. This year's record of 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty one point six millimeters supersedes the 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: previous record of seven hundred and eighty two point eight 18 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: millimeters set in nineteen fifty six. Yesterday, Sydney's northern beaches 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: experience flash flooding, with manly residents being told to evacuate 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: as the Manly Dam reached a red alert and began 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: to overflow. Several evacuation orders were also issued across New 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: South Wales. 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: There's been an urgent call for blood donors amid the 24 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 2: floods in New South Wales and Queensland, and according to Life, 25 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: flood road closures and the impacts of the floods have 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: led to the loss of three thousand donations. Seven donor 27 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: centers across Queensland have been affected as a result of 28 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: the floods, while there is more donor center in New 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: South Wales remains closed. So if you are able to 30 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: donating blood now is a great thing to do. 31 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: And today's good news. Residents in the US can now 32 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: order an additional four free rapid antigen tests from the 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: federal government. This is actually the second round of free 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: tests people in the US can order after the Biden 35 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: administration announced the program late last year. 36 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: Today we are talking about the push to improve consent 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: to education in schools. 38 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: Zara. Consent education has been in the news quite a 39 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: bit over the last few weeks. Give me the latest, 40 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: especially leading into a federal election. 41 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the important note to say from 42 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: the outset it's clearly becoming an election issue, this movement 43 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 2: around survivors and consent. We weren't sure whether that was 44 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: actually going to translate into real policy agendas for both 45 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: the government and the opposition ahead of the elections, so 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: that is something of note. But it started last month 47 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 2: with the amazing news that every state and territory in 48 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 2: the country had agreed to make consent education mandatory in 49 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: all schools in age appropriate ways from kindergarten to year ten. 50 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 2: That was a really significant step forward and perhaps overdue, 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: but certainly welcomed by advocates, including Chanel Contos, who will 52 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: hear from a bit later, the founder of Teach us Consent. 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 2: She'd been a champion for this change and told TDA 54 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 2: at the time of the announcement that it would create 55 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 2: a puzzle of cultural change in Australia forever. So that 56 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: was announced by all the Ministers of Education following their 57 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: meeting last month. But then there was another move in 58 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: the consent front, and that was to have a national survey. 59 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: So that is something that Chanel Contos requested in her 60 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: meeting with Scott Morrison and previously had brought up with 61 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: government ministers in a meeting earlier this year over the weekend, 62 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: we heard what the federal government would be promising in 63 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: this space. Sam take us through it. 64 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: So that movement from the education ministers seems to have 65 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: culminated in some pretty major announcements from the coalition and 66 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: the opposition. Let's start with the federal government here, Zara, 67 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: what have they promised in this space. 68 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: So just making clear again, when we talk about the 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: federal government, we're talking about the Liberal National Coalition. When 70 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 2: we talk about the opposition, we are talking about labor. 71 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: So going back to the federal government, they made an 72 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: announcement over the weekend of a few things in this space. 73 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 2: The headline was five million dollars to develop a national survey. 74 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: So it's that one that I was saying. Chanell had 75 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: requested for high school students to help us learn more 76 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: about the attitudes of school students and the issues that 77 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: need to be addressed in their understanding of consent. That 78 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: survey will be developed by the Human Rights Commission working 79 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: with Chanel. Then also included in that package, there's thirty 80 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 2: two million dollars for a consent campaign focusing on young 81 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: people and their parents. As well as some funding for 82 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: broader public campaigns about violence in society. But the key 83 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 2: focus there is on that kind of understanding and awareness building. 84 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: So it's something that advocates have long said is missing 85 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: from a more holistic understanding of consent. 86 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: And take me to the policy being talked about by 87 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: the opposition, led by Anthony Alberisi. They made an announcement 88 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: in this space yesterday. 89 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: What was said the Opposition's focus has been about the 90 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 2: logistics of teaching consent and teaching respectful relationships. So on 91 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: that front, they've committed to spend seventy seven million dollars 92 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 2: really focused on equipping schools to have the resources that 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: they need to provide quality education materials. So some of 94 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: that money will go to training teachers and some will 95 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 2: go to supporting schools to higher experts in the respectful 96 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 2: relationships education space. And Labour's point, which was made pretty 97 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 2: clear in yesterday's announcement by Opposition leader Anthony Alberesi and 98 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 2: Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibisec is that while there's now 99 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: this commitment to mandate consent education, the current delivery of 100 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: consent education programs is, as they put it, patchy and inconsistent. 101 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear from both sides of the 102 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: upcoming election, but also of state and territory governments and leadership, 103 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: there's definitely a movement towards converting some of those conversations 104 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: that we've been having about consent education into action. As 105 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: we head into a federal election in a few months, 106 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: it's clearly going to be top of mind. What I 107 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: have noticed even throughout this podcast, Sara, is that we've 108 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: kind of been talking about three major parties here, the Coalition, 109 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: the Opposition, and Chanel Contos And you actually had the 110 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: opportunity to ask Chanel yesterday what she thought about these 111 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: reforms that are being touted in her name. Almost here's 112 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: a little bit of what Chanel had to say. 113 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 3: It's so great to see that education, specifically consent and 114 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 3: education and the implementation of it and more research around 115 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 3: the experience of young Australians has been pushed to the 116 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 3: forefront of political issues in this upcoming campaign by both parties. 117 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 3: I think it really emphasizes that this goes beyond political 118 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: issues and in fact is a human rights issue, and 119 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 3: specifically in the case of school students, a child human 120 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 3: rights issue. I see it as a real testament to 121 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 3: the thousands of people who were mainly young women, who 122 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 3: gave their voice to a collective movement demanding better. And 123 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 3: it's quite refreshing to see the voices of young Australians 124 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: being heard in this way and taken on by both parties. 125 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 3: Of course, this is something that women and people have 126 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 3: been demanding for decades, but that real catalyst moment of 127 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 3: thousands speaking up at once and demanding more from our government. 128 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,119 Speaker 3: I think it's really great to see it being heard 129 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: and yeah pushing it to the forefront of political issues, 130 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 3: making the reduction of gender based violence and education for 131 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 3: the purpose of transforming culture a political priority in twenty 132 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 3: twenty two, and I hope that just becomes the norm. 133 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: I hope that soon the reduction of gender based violence 134 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 3: and sex discrimination in our country is just as valid 135 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: as economic prosperity for our country in terms of all 136 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 3: campaign elections and promises and funding allocation. 137 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: That's all we have time for today, but it's certainly 138 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: an interesting point that we are mere months out from 139 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 2: a federal election and we're starting to see some major 140 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: policies being announced by both the government and the opposition. 141 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 2: Whenever you're listening to these sorts of announcements, it's really 142 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: good to look at the funding that's actually being allocated 143 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 2: to these things and breaking down how much that funding 144 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 2: is actually allocating to each task that it is saying, 145 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: because sometimes it's a bit confusing to see big million 146 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 2: or billion dollar announcements and not really comprehend how those 147 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: will work logistically or in practice. So hopefully we'll be 148 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: able to talk more about this as we approach the election, 149 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 2: and there are going to be a whole lot more 150 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 2: announcements of this nature, so we'll be there to guide 151 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 2: you through all of that.