Share on Twitter Attorney-General Mark Speakman announced yesterday that he’d seek to reform NSW consent laws to include “enthusiastic” or “affirmative” consent. The announcement was met with widespread praise by survivors like Saxon Mullins who told SBS News the proposed changes were "an important step into changing the way that we talk about sexual violence.” But two experts told The Feed that while they welcome the proposed changes, they remain ‘cautiously optimistic’ about how they’d work in practice. Related Dr Julia Quilter has already examined the three major legislative reforms in the sexual offences space; in 1981, 1989 and 2007. She said while the reforms proposed by the Attorney-General have the potential to create positive change, we won’t know their impact until they’re tested in courtrooms.