Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present a petition certified by the Petitions Committee and signed by 48,985 Australians. This petition asks the House to thoroughly review programs such as the Safe Schools program and the Catching On Early and Catching On Later programs. The petitioners state, amongst other things:

We fear that kids who are exposed to this type of highly sexualized content may become very likely to develop stress and high levels of confusion regarding sensitive topics such as sexuality, reproduction and gender.

The concerns represented by the 48,985 petitioners are shared by countless other Australians. Many parents throughout Australia believe that these programs are inappropriate and misleading, and that's why they would like to see them thoroughly reviewed.

The petition read as follows—