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The public discussion around rape and consent driven by women like Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins has supercharged reporting.

Daughter of John Ilhan exposes alleged rapist, criticises police response We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Former Melbourne woman Yasmin Ilhan has publicly alleged she was raped as a teenager by a private school student and criticised the way her case was handled by police. The London-based law graduate, who is the eldest daughter of late retail tycoon John Ilhan, said she was “horrified” by the way she was dealt with by several police officers and the recent decision not to lay charges against the man she...

22 April 2021 1:22pm There were close to 40,000 signatures supporting Chanel Contos’ “Petition for Conset to Be Included in Australian Schools’ Sex Education Earlier” along with 3,918 testimonies submitted at the time of writing on Thursday morning. Ms Contos, a Consent activist who is studying at a London university, said that she had held online discussions with the Victorian government this week over plans to introduce an informal report writing scheme for victims of sexual assault. “I met with the [Victorian] government this morning and also pushed for an informal software repor...

She said she is also holding a meeting with the federal government "soon".  "This is not political to me. I'm speaking to whoever I can and need to in order to get this out there as soon as possible," she said.  The former Sydney school student, now studying in London, started the petition calling for a more comprehensive sex education curriculum several months ago. Since then, she has received around 6,200 anonymous testimonies from current and former private school students across the country.  READ MORE The operation makes victims aware of the NSW Police Sexual Assault Reporting Optio...

‘Not about sending teenagers to jail’: Chanel Contos pushes for new sex crimes reporting We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement The young woman who set off a national discourse about sexual consent among young people is calling on Victoria Police to launch a new system to make it easier to report sexual assault and allow police to better track alleged repeat offenders. University student Chanel Contos is pushing for a program that would allow sexual assault complaints to be made to police anonymous...