New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has announced reforms to sexual assault trial procedures, including restrictions on so-called "rape myth questions" — courtroom tactics rooted in false beliefs that minimise or justify sexual violence. Rape myths centre on a narrow "real rape" script requiring victims to conform to specific archetypes, such as being young, immediately distressed, and attacked by a stranger, while dismissing cases involving alcohol, prior relationships, or survivors from marginalised groups including people of colour, older women, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Research consistently links belief in these myths to both higher rates of perpetration and lower rates of reporting — with only 8% of rape and sexual assault victims in Australia reporting to police in 2021–22, down from 19% a decade earlier — a systemic failure the Australian Law Reform Commission flagged again in 2025.