{"id":21933,"date":"2023-07-23T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2023-07-23T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:23:48","slug":"universities-australia-consent-education-axing-an-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/universities-australia-consent-education-axing-an-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA CONSENT EDUCATION AXING AN EMBARRASSMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Report from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/education\/2023\/07\/21\/exclusive-consent-program-axed\">The Saturday Paper<\/a>:&nbsp;<em>Universities Australia have shelved a student-facing respectful relationships campaign because a minority of vice-chancellors among the 39 universities the body represents objected to its explicit nature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greens Senator Larissa Waters will pursue the matter directly when Universities Australia appear at a Senate Inquiry into sexual consent laws and education next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson on Women, Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Universities have a clear responsibility to provide a safe environment for students, with 275 sexual assaults in a university setting each week, it&#8217;s clear they are failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Reporting today suggests universities are also failing to provide the educational resources young adults need, because of the archaic mindset of a few old dinosaurs in charge of our tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Allowing the prudish nonsense of a minority of vice-chancellors to shelve a government-funded campaign is embarrassing enough, but Universities Australia attempting to hide the decision is outrageous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If Universities Australia don&#8217;t want to provide sexual consent education to the adults on its campuses, it should hand back the $1.5 million it was provided to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will be pursuing this matter directly with Universities Australia when they appear before a Senate Inquiry into sexual consent laws and education next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from&nbsp;The Saturday Paper:&nbsp;Universities Australia have shelved a student-facing respectful relationships campaign because a minority of vice-chancellors among the 39 universities the body represents objected to its explicit nature. Greens Senator Larissa Waters will pursue the matter directly when Universities Australia appear at a Senate Inquiry into sexual consent laws and education next week. Greens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/universities-australia-consent-education-axing-an-embarrassment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA CONSENT EDUCATION AXING AN EMBARRASSMENT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21934,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}