Aus state to reform sexual assault law
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Sydney, May 25 : The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) will adopt affirmative consent as part of a reform to its sexual assault laws, Attorney General Mark Speakman announced on Tuesday.
Speakman said the state government was adopting or adopting in principle 44 recommendations made late last year by a state commission reviewing consent in relation to sexual offences, reports dpa news agency.
He also pointed to two key reforms relating to consent that go further.
The first is that there cannot be consent unless the party has done or said something to communicate it.
Four years after Saxon Mullins walked out of a court room feeling lost, alone and powerless , NSW is introducing a law that would have jailed the man she accused of raping her in a Kings Cross alleyway.
Ms Mullins became the face of a national push to strengthen sexual consent laws, after telling the ABC how she was sexually assaulted as an 18-year-old virgin behind a nightclub in 2013 by a man she d met minutes earlier.
Two trials and two appeals later, a judge found the man involved had no reasonable basis for believing she had not consented while acknowledging that Ms Mullins - in her own mind - had not consented.
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A young girl has been suspended after teachers found a knife in her school bag just weeks after a student was stabbed at another Sydney school.
Teachers at Kingswood South Primary School in Sydney s west found the pocket knife in the girls backpack after they were notified by students.
No one was hurt but the girl was suspended under the Department of Education s policy on knives.
Teachers at Kingswood South Primary School found the knife in the female student s backpack
The girl was suspended after a teacher found the pocket knife in her schoolbag (stock image) The student did not take the knife out of her bag and threaten others. No one was injured during this incident, a spokesperson told The Daily Telegraph.
Pictured: A kirpan, traditionally carried by baptised Sikhs
A legal loophole means students in several states are still allowed to bring knives to school, despite horrifying scenes in Sydney where a teenage boy was allegedly stabbed with a Sikh kirpan.
The New South Wales government banned kirpans from schools on Tuesday after a 14-year-old boy allegedly used a ceremonial dagger to stab a 16-year-old male student at Glenwood High School in Sydney s north-west on May 6.
According to the state s education department, the boy was allowed to carry it on school grounds because it was classified as a religious weapon - before the rules were reversed.
A 14-year-old boy allegedly stabbed another male student, 16, twice in the stomach with the miniature sword called a kirpan at Glenwood High School in Sydney s north-west on May 6th