The introduced legislation aims to create new criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material. 

The Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 will impose severe criminal penalties of up to 6 years imprisonment on those who share digitally created sexually explicit material.

This behaviour can involve degrading, humiliating, and dehumanising victims, particularly targeting women and girls and contributing to gender-based violence violence.