Anna Marshall Following pressure from feminist groups, the Western Australian parliament in 1985 dramatically amended the law relating to rape, first by changing the term rape to sexual assault and then greatly widening the definition of what could be classed as sexual assault. Many acts not previously constituting rape were included in the new Act. The criteria for sexual assault Kevin Ibbs life was riuned by two conniving women who conspired to have him charged with rape was widened to include any type of penetration by any object or any part of another person’s body where consent was not present and ongoing. It did not matter that force or threats were not used. The penalty for any type of sexual assault was increased to fifteen years imprisonment. Where any type of force was used, the charge was aggravated sexual assault, carrying a penalty of twenty years imprisonment. The draconian Act…