The issue focused on criminal conviction for rape and statutory rape as illegal activities in Australia. It involved legislation designed to criminalise statutory rape as illegal activities and criminalising statutory rape as illegal activities. Legal experts agree that courts should step in if criminalisation is allowed to occur. Legal experts argue that legislation such as criminalisation should only apply in criminal courts where statutory rape has already been prosecuted and prosecuted by courts with statutory jurisdiction. Legal experts argue that legislation such as criminalisation should only apply in criminal courts where statutory rape has