Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017

The majority voted in favour of a motion introduced by Nick Xenophon Team Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore (SA), which means it was successful.

This motion doesn't actually amend the bill at all, but does send a strong message to the Government that the Senate wants new laws introduced "to criminalise the sharing of intimate images without consent".

Motion text

At the end of the motion, add:

", but the Senate:

(1) notes that Australian laws have failed to keep up with the new ways that technology is being used to cause harm, particularly to women; and

(2) calls on the Government to criminalise the sharing of intimate images without consent, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee in its report on the phenomemon colloquially referred to as 'revenge porn'.