There were close to 40,000 signatures supporting Chanel Contos’ “Petition for Conset to Be Included in Australian Schools’ Sex Education Earlier” along with 3,918 testimonies submitted at the time of writing on Thursday morning.

Ms Contos, a Consent activist who is studying at a London university, said that she had held online discussions with the Victorian government this week over plans to introduce an informal report writing scheme for victims of sexual assault.

“I met with the [Victorian] government this morning and also pushed for an informal software reporting tool as a priority, along with legislative and education reform,” Ms Contos told SBS News on Tuesday evening from London.

She said up to 40 people followed the Labor caucus briefing, including the Victorian Minister for Women, Gabrielle Williams. There was a separate briefing with the Acting Premier James Merlino who also holds the education portfolio.

On Sunday, the state opposition called for the scheme to be adopted in Victoria in line with other states in Australia who are already using it.

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Ms Contos said that she expected to talk to Victorian Police Commissioner Shane Patton and Attorney General Jaclyn Symes. She also expected to hold meetings with members of the federal government.

“This is not political to me. I’m speaking to whoever I can and need to in order to get this out there as soon as possible,” she said.

Along with the online petition, Ms Contos collaborated with New South Wales Police to introduce Operation Vest in March. The operation is aimed at supporting victims of sexual assault and provide them with available options to help them come forward.

Meanwhile, Ms Contos heavily criticised the federal government’s recent education videos about consent, particularly a video using milkshakes, tacos and other food images to highlight issues of sexual intimidation and rape.

“The government needs to know this isn’t good enough,” wrote Ms Contos wrote on Instagram.

“You can’t teach the logistics of sex talking about the ‘birds and the bees’ and you can’t teach the intricacies of consent using milkshakes. …That video is belittling to Australian youth and was clearly not expert informed. …You can’t put comprising on ordering pizza for dinner on the same scale as sexual assault.

“We need to give examples of language that youth actually use that are [examples of] sexual abuse, harassment and coercion.

“And we can’t call it ‘moving the line’. Call it what it is. It’s abuse,” Ms Contos wrote.