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Federal opposition frontbencher Tanya Plibersek has jumped on the radio proper after the premier to speak about Labor’s proposed $77m bundle to enhance consent training at college. (Hopefully with one thing higher than that weird milkshake video from final 12 months.)
Properly, the nationwide curriculum has simply been strengthened on this space to say that each one college students ought to study respectful relationships whereas they’re at college … That is ensuring that we modify the target within the curriculum into actual change in each classroom in Australia.
… If we are able to change that when they’re younger, we are able to change these surprising statistics throughout Australia the place we see one in 5 Australian ladies experiencing sexual assault in her lifetime, one in three experiencing home violence.
Premier, are you able to assure individuals who misplaced their properties to those floods, that they are going to have the ability to rebuild the place they’re, or will some be pressured to maneuver to much less flood-prone areas?
Properly, Patricia, I’ll work via that as a result of I imply, clearly this was an unpredicted, freak disaster. I imply, there’s a 14 and a half metre flood in Lismore!
However finally, in these occasions, we have to have frank assessments of the circumstances.
Once more, I don’t imply to be impolite, however you say “freak” – is it actually a “freak” if we’re being instructed we’re going to have extra of those occasions extra incessantly?
Ought to we be actually describing it that approach after we know that these occasions are going to be with us extra usually?
We’ve by no means seen a 14 and a half metre flood in Lismore, I’m positive you’ve got that. There’s little doubt that we’re seeing extra of those occasions and we have to be sure that as we rebuild, we accomplish that in such a approach that ensures that we defend individuals’s lives and now we have communities inbuilt a approach the place we mitigate flood threat or hearth threat.
… In order we get to that rebuilding section, we’ll actually have a look at higher planning and extra flood mitigation and hearth mitigation as we transfer via.
