Member

The Government will oppose Amendment 299B, which stipulates that a photograph or video depicting the victim alongside something sexual should be considered intimate. The difficulty is that, as drafted, this is extremely broad, and the reality is that such an amendment is likely to incorporate some images that are not sufficiently harmful to warrant criminalisation. For example, images of fully clothed people posing with sex toys in a sex shop would be caught by this proposed offence, and even a fully clothed person posing with a topless male stripper at a hen night would be caught.