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Teddy Time for Year 7 - 10 Tasmanian Students



Tasmania’s education department in its Respectful Relations and Consent year 7 - 10 booklet, contains resources and links written by Teddy Cook. 

Who is Teddy Cook?




Teddy Cook is a woman who has written resources used by the Tasmanian Education Department.  Teddy has recently been reported as promoting on her social media accounts bestiality, bondage and drug taking.

Teddy has no relevant tertiary educational or medical qualifications. Nor is she of good character to be employed to write such material for any government body. Teddy’s qualification is ‘lived experience’ and past advisory roles.

As Tasmanian students are directed to explore Teddy’s website The Line, (as an activity in DECYP’s Respectful Relationships booklet) they notice there are a variety of tabs for them to go to beyond those about consent, enabling them to freely explore porn facts and even a porn quiz. The Line never mentions once in its website watching porn is illegal in Tasmania for those under 18. Instead Tasmanian teachers hand out the link to the site where year 7-10 students can explore not only the ‘facts’ and ‘how much they know about’ porn, but will also inevitably stumble across the following tabs for them to access, read and share: research for students further reading  


Given year 9 students are as young as 14, this material is overtly explicit and breaks down privacy and consent boundaries in the classroom. In Tasmania, viewing porn under the age of 18 is illegal.

Page 74 of DECYP’s document encourages students to explore Teddy’s website: 










Recently the Daily Mail recorded Teddy's on line postings about herself -




Teddy is an extreme queer theorist, and has recently been questioned about her suitability to sit on a World Health Organisation W.H.O panel to draft their policy for 'trans health care'.




Tasmanian parents are unaware that Teddy’s website The Line , together with the writings from Latrobe University think tank around ,Social Theory in Australian Public School Health Education, inspires much of what is in DECYP’s new resource, which is ironically about consent but deceptively breaks down barriers around common decency and consent, without parental knowledge.

No parent would consent to an activity such as the one described in the Tasmanian Education Department’s resource, which is a ‘sexual consent relay’ being performed in the classroom with year 9 students, as it is set out. Noticeably, this activity like others is not visible in the hard copy booklet, but only viewable via an online link on page 74 of Tasmania's new resource:

Clicking on the link takes teachers and students to the following class room activity









What's for dinner? - Sex as objectification and transaction. 

How schools bring their values to the table

Teachers are then instructed to use a dinner metaphor as an activity, to teach consent skills during sexual exploration . The activity begins by having teachers read out the following transcript as an introduction to the activity  which sets the agenda and brings down students boundaries. This activity is completely inappropriate in a school setting, as it would be in a work setting with adults. It’s unethical and malfeasance to set up the following teaching activity for 14 year old school students. Vicarious role plays, between randomly assigned male and female students to negotiate sexual consent is a breech of  a teachers code of conduct..These activities are grooming.




'Tell students to form pairs...'

It’s unethical and malfeasance to set up the following teaching activity for 14 year old school students. Vicarious role plays, between randomly assigned male and female students to negotiate sexual consent is a breech of  a teachers code of conduct..These activities are grooming. 










Nature Vs Nurture : DECYP’s 2D pedagogy deems nurture has won

There are biological drivers of behaviour , differing between sexes, yet this text educates students to see no behaviours linked to biology and gives no evidence or reference to substantiate all are ‘nurture’ based.


On page 63, DECYP’s text does not allow nuance or a balanced discussion about how sex based differences in hormones, physical strength, menstruation, breastfeeding and women being able to become pregnant, is inextricably linked to behavioural differences between men and women: differences which can be seen consistently outworked cross- culturally in different ways.

Latrobe University and the writings of Ros Ward: their impact on Australian School Curriculums

Over a decade ago academic Ros Ward composed Australia’s first ‘Safe Schools’ curriculum which has morphed into many iterations since then, one being Tasmania’s new Respectful Relations documents

,Social Theory in Australian Public School Health Education.Chapter 20: Destroying the Family and Civilization: Marxism, Safe Schools and Sexuality Education Roz Ward



The underlying premise of Safe Schools, is heteronormativity needs disruption, as a matter of social justice. It proposes nullifying differences between men and women as a means to liberate the sexes. But Ward’s promotion of a hyper-free sexuality being the new base line of ‘normality’ is not value free. It is an extreme push against the idea that -women have many variations; that they are  different physically and sexually to men and to nullify these differences is to coerce women to conform to a male sexuality, that ultimately degrades women.


Voice your concerns by writing to the principal of your local high school and also the state and federal education ministers.