Key developments
- Civil penalties regime for non-consensual sharing of intimate images
- Inquiry into protections for people who make voluntary disclosures to the ICAC
- Online Registry and the Online Court
- NCAT jurisdictional issue
- Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
- Courts in rural and regional areas
- Review of the Guardianship Act 1987 (NSW)
- Case guardians in family law
- Domestic Violence Death Review Team
- 2017 First Nations National Constitutional Convention
- Draft Practical Guide on Business and Human Rights for the Australian Legal Profession
- Legal assistance funding
- Reforms to land management and biodiversity conservation
- Business payment times
- First review of the Lifetime Care and Support Scheme and Dust Diseases Scheme
- Local planning panels
- Statutory Review of the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012
Civil penalties regime for non-consensual sharing of intimate images
The Commonwealth Department of Communications and the Arts has released a discussion paper for consultation regarding a proposed civil penalties regime to enforce a prohibition on non-consensual sharing of intimate images.
The Children’s Legal Issues and Privacy and Communications Committees prepared a submission to the Law Council of Australia on the proposals put forward in the discussion paper. The submission provided feedback on: the framing of the proposed civil penalties provision and the definition of ‘sharing’; the triaging processes to be adopted by the Commissioner for the handling of complaints; the sharing of intimate images between minors; information gathering powers; consent; intention to cause harm and the likelihood of harm.
