A 90-year-old granddad claims his granddaughter assured him he would have a home for life if he helped her purchase a home. Now he says he’s been ‘abandoned’.
NSW sexual consent laws to be reformed
By Lauren Croft|26 May 2021
In a massive step forward for NSW, Attorney-General Mark Speakman has just announced the reform of sexual consent laws.
The announcement comes after the NSW Law Reform Commission (LRC) published a report last November analysing the NSW consent laws. The current laws will be strengthened and simplified in response to increasing calls across the community to protect victims and survivors of sexual assault.
The new stipulations mean that affirmative consent is now law: unless someone does or says something to communicate consent, they have not consented to sexual activity. Similarly, the accused person’s belief in consent will not be recognised by law unless they did or said something to establish consent. This also protects victims further by recognising the “freeze” response, whereby someone freezes and cannot communicate a lack of consent.
Sharon McLennan has had enough. As another Sorry Day arrives, she is sick of asking for justice and compensation for the four members of her family who were among the Stolen Generations.
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Switching off the smoking engine of the four-wheel drive, Mr Logan helped occupants out, calming a panicked toddler whose unconscious mother lay over him in the back of the family car and reassuring another boy trapped in the rear shelf.
Then, in long grass nearby, Mr Logan discovered a man in his 20s groaning with severe head injuries after being thrown from the car in the crash.
Flagging down emergency services and directing bystanders, Mr Logan cradled the young man in his arms, used a towel to try to stem the bleeding from his head, and consoled him as his condition worsened.