Crackdown on revenge porn grubs

IT will soon be illegal in Queensland to share or threaten to expose intimate images of someone without their consent – whether or not those images exist – under tough new revenge porn laws to go before the Palaszczuk Cabinet today.

Cabinet will be asked to sign off on new laws to outlaw revenge porn in Queensland in a Bill to be introduced in State Parliament as early as this week.

The new laws will include changes to the Criminal Code to make it a criminal offence not only to share, but to threaten to share, an intimate image without consent.

The offence also will apply to digitally altered images, such as photoshopping a victim’s head on to someone else’s body.

It is believed it will be an offence to threaten to share such images, whether they actually exist or not.

Perpetrators will also be forced to remove the images, with the new laws to include a “take down” provision.

Moving to strengthen protection for victims amid the growing prevalence of revenge porn, will bring Queensland into line with most other mainland states.