⚖️ New affirmative consent laws start today in NSW.
⚖️ The laws set clearer boundaries for consensual sex, reinforce the basic principle of common decency that consent is a free choice involving mutual and ongoing communication, and reinforce that consent should not be presumed.
Not sure there’s a better pre poll station in the country than Old Parliament House. Great to walk through the Museum of Democracy and Kings Hall to cast a valid vote in the 2022 election. Don’t waste your energy on cynicism. Democracy is a privilege #auspol
⚖️Today I intro’d a bill into @NSWParlLA to bring common decency to our sexual assault laws.
⚖️Consent to sexual activity should not be presumed; it should be communicated.
🙏Thanks to @SaxonAdair for advocating #affirmativeconsent + @NSWLawReform for its important work. 1/2
Let’s make August the month we break vaccination records. It's a month for all of us to come forward and get the jab. The sooner we get jabs in arms, the sooner we get back to living life as freely as we can with the Delta strain.
I love freedom. Who doesn't love freedom? I want freedom from being amongst the over 4 million official (and likely 10 million actual) COVID deaths globally. And freedom from being amongst the over 13 million current active cases. Or millions of current Long COVID cases. 1/
@MWhitbourn In spite of budget pressures, empty nesters can still afford trip to Germany/Scandi country to check up on special tech windows/pre-fab structure
A pay rise that means a woman earns more than her male partner increases her chance of domestic violence by 35 per cent, ground-breaking Australian research has revealed | @swrighteconomy https://t.co/iyNkH9ZO6G