Sexual assault and consent law have dominated the national conversation over the past 12 months. State governments remain at loggerheads over differing definitions of consent, as calls for societal change grow louder. But while new legislative reforms in NSW hope to change the experience of survivors in the criminal justice system, Keely McDonough reports community attitudes have a long way to go in keeping up.


Well Messers 12 per cent, if you are asleep and I sever your penis can I rely on your proposition that you gave consent?