Dazed and Confused
Glen Le Lievre
The federal government’s education campaign around consent was widely panned. It attracted criticism for using confusing messaging and bizarre scenarios: one video used a scene with a milkshake to talk about power dynamics, while another featured a narrator saying: ‘Taco has no opinion about whether or not you eat it … because taco is an object’.
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