Sydney school students call for earlier education on sexual relationships and consent in wake of petition
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Student leaders Jess Duncan and Ethan Nixon from Sydney s St Andrew s Cathedral School are calling for change.
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For year 12 student Ethan Nixon, an online petition containing thousands of testimonies of teenage sexual assaults has made confronting reading.
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Year 8 students from St Andrew s Cathedral School attend regular seminars on safe relationships
Students say some pupils are still unsure about what constitutes consent It definitely hurt actually, he said. I read quite a few of them and it was quite sad to see these people who are my age, some younger, some older, who are going through these difficult and traumatic experiences.
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