Students on social media on their phone at St Mary MacKillop College in Canberra, Monday. [Photo Credit: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas]

Australia cannot rely on consent education alone to combat sexual violence, the leader of a key round-table has warned.

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and NSW Education Minister Prue Car convened Friday’s meeting in Sydney to address alarming incidents of alleged sexual violence and harrowing statistics regarding youth misogyny.

School bosses joined experts and politicians for the brainstorm, as the Women’s Safety Commissioner Dr Hannah Tonkin said the nation needed urgent action.

Ms Car warned discussions must go broader than consent education alone.

Lawmakers are canvassing ways to tackle violent and degrading pornography and algorithms that push extreme content to children.

Forcing websites to remove degrading material and designing an opt-out approach to harmful algorithms will also be discussed.

The meeting comes as the federal opposition has been divided in its own response to the women’s safety crisis.

Nationals leader Matt Canavan on Friday stood by earlier comments that a ”feminisation” of school curriculums, particularly mandatory Respectful Relationships training, had led to boys embracing sexist online content.

The comments were at odds with senior Liberal Jane Hume’s backing in of the curriculum.

Ms Car on Friday said she wanted to see male politicians using their voices for good.

The leaders cited several harrowing statistics on Friday morning.

Ms Plibersek, citing Dublin University research, noted a teenage boy’s social media feed took just an average of 23 minutes to serve misogynistic content.

Dr Tonkin raised a recent University of Melbourne study that found nearly a quarter of young boys believed feminism was damaging to society and could be resisted with violence if necessary.

The roundtable comes amid a spate of violent alleged sexual attacks perpetrated by the city’s youth.

Three schoolboys currently stand accused of an hours-long pack rape of a southwest Sydney teenager.

Three teens from Sydney’s prestigious Scots College are also before the courts, alleged to have raped a 14-year-old girl in an alleyway.

A recent suspected death of a schoolgirl in Sydney’s north caused by consensual choking has also fuelled debate about the influence of violent pornography and dangerous attitudes toward sexual relations.