Consent laws aren't the reason for low sexual assault conviction rates — it's how society views rape itself
- Written by Simon Bronitt, Head of School and Dean Professor of Law, University of Sydney
ShutterstockPublic debate about our rape laws in recent weeks has fixated, yet again, on the concept of consent and whether our current definition in the law is “fit for purpose”.
Over the past three decades, Australia’s states and territories have set out to modernise the definition of consent, albeit with some variability in...
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