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âAs bad as 15 years agoâ: Inaction on sex assault slammed In 2004, the brightest legal minds in the state tried to improve the justice system for sexual assault victims. Their findings sparked a change in consent laws but little else.
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Subscriber only Legal experts who spent years crafting sexual violence reforms to improve the system for victims say the problems are just as bad as they were 15 years ago . They have reiterated calls for specialisation when it comes to dealing with sexual assault matters in court. The then-Labor government formed the Criminal Offences Sexual Assault Taskforce in 2004 to look at reforming the system in the face of extremely low conviction rates.
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