It's a bit of a difficult question to weigh in on because, as your colleague has alluded to, what parents feel uncomfortable with is probably something they are not going to talk about in their homes.
So how do we make that information more available? The suggestion I have put forward is that a national sexual health promotion strategy would not just be aimed at children, it would be talking to teachers and to parents. This is a conversation that everybody needs to be aware of. If a kid comes home from a party and says to their parent, “I took these pictures of us doing nudies in the backyard”, etc., there's an opportunity for parents to weigh in on that conversation.
I think right now—and the evidence would suggest—parents feel that they are not well equipped to answer those questions. They either never talk about it, or if they do talk about it, it's not in a particularly helpful information-giving sense, if you understand what I mean. It may be, “Go to your room. We're not having that conversation. You're too young for that.”
I think it's a multipronged approach that involves parents, teachers, and the kids themselves. Absolutely.