Skip to content
The Catholic Leader
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
The Catholic Leader
No Result
View All Result
Home News Education

Catholic backing for review of how sex education, consent are addressed in schools

byMark Bowling
11 March 2021 - Updated on 6 April 2021
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AA

School start: Dr Lee-Anne Perry says the priority must be the wellbeing of students and staff.

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Catholic education sector has welcomed a state government decision to review sexual education in schools, particularly teaching sexual consent.

“All Catholic schools aim to support students in ways that teach them to build and maintain respectful relations,” Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director, Dr Lee-Anne Perry, said.

The government has moved quickly to examine whether sexual consent and reporting is being adequately taught in schools, following explosive allegations of sexual assault and rape occurring among students at some of the state’s elite public and private schools.

They are among thousands of allegations contained in a petition created by a young Sydney woman, former Kambala student Chanel Contos, who has called for better sex education in schools.

“Recent information regarding sexual assaults published by a website and online petition and covered in the media is disturbing to all educators and school communities,” Dr Perry said.

“Our thoughts are with any young people who have suffered harm, whether in an educational setting or while interacting with others in the community and we urge any victim of sexual assault to report the matter to police.

“Catholic schools have both legislative and ethical and moral obligations to meet in cases of reported harm or potential harm to students.”

Reaching out: All Hallows’School principal Catherine O’Kane.

In a letter to parents, the Principal of Brisbane’s elite Catholic girls school All Hallows’, Catherine O’Kane, wrote she had reached out to past pupils “to send a clear message of support to the brave women who have spoken out about their experience.”

Additionally, the All Hallows’ principal said she contacted Dr Perry advocating for a unified, proactive response to the consent education issue across all education sectors. 

“Consent is not just an issue for schools, but one that needs to be addressed by families, government and the broader community,” Ms O’Kane wrote.

Related Stories

Australian of the Year Grace Tame set to speak at local Catholic college

“In a year where our school theme inspires us to ‘Lead for Justice’, I feel it is important that All Hallows’ lends its voice to calls for positive and lasting change that brings about greater respect and safety for all women.”

ShareTweet
Previous Post

Being a working mum gives me a reason to wake up

Next Post

Faith groups team up demanding tougher climate action

Mark Bowling

Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

Related Posts

Safeguarding message: The Iona College team supporting a talk by Australian of the Year, Grace Tame. Left to right, Rector Fr Michael Twigg OMI, Dean of Catholic Faith and Mission, Liz Madden, Dean of Oblate Identity and Community, Brayden Teece, social worker and Oblate Safeguarding Coordinator, Megan Vardanega, and Principal, Trevor Goodwin.
Education

Australian of the Year Grace Tame set to speak at local Catholic college

15 July 2021
Next Post

Faith groups team up demanding tougher climate action

Consent, reporting and sexual education - Catholic principal takes a lead

St Paul writing his Epistles painted by Valentin de Boulogne

The mystery of love is worth saving souls

Popular News

  • Here are the stories of 10 new saints being canonised this Sunday

    Here are the stories of 10 new saints being canonised this Sunday

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Angel’s Kitchen serves hot meals to the hungry in Southport

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Parishes unite for Logan deanery family festival this Sunday

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI turned 95 on a ‘very happy’ day

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Queensland election: The pro-life political parties committed to abortion law reforms

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Search our job finder
No Result
View All Result

Latest News

Holiness is possible and the Church provides tools to attain it, cardinal says
Faith

Holiness is possible and the Church provides tools to attain it, cardinal says

by CNS
18 May 2022
0

HOLINESS is possible, and the Catholic Church provides the tools for attaining it. That was the theme...

Church workers have helped more than 1.2 million Ukrainians during the war, Caritas says

Church workers have helped more than 1.2 million Ukrainians during the war, Caritas says

18 May 2022
Minority Catholic woman takes pride in Asia’s overlooked saints

Minority Catholic woman takes pride in Asia’s overlooked saints

18 May 2022
Bishops call out racism, gun violence after U.S. shooting

Bishops call out racism, gun violence after U.S. shooting

17 May 2022
Parishes unite for Logan deanery family festival this Sunday

Parishes unite for Logan deanery family festival this Sunday

17 May 2022

Never miss a story. Sign up to the Weekly Round-Up
eNewsletter now to receive headlines directly in your email.

Sign up to eNews
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Jobs
  • Subscribe

The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader
Accessibility Information | Privacy Policy | Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Catholic Leader acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this country and especially acknowledge the traditional owners on whose lands we live and work throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyChoose another Subscription
    Continue Shopping