Law on image-based abuse

Part of the Crime topic

Understand the law on image-based abuse in Queensland.


In short

When someone takes, shares or threatens to share an intimate image of another person without their consent, it’s called image-based abuse.

Use these laws and rules to understand image-based abuse.

You must

To comply with the law in Queensland you must:

  • Get consent before taking or sharing an intimate images of another person.

You cannot

To comply with the law in Queensland you cannot:

  • Take a nude, intimate or sexual image of another person without their consent.
  • Share a nude, intimate or sexual image of another person without their consent.
  • Threaten to take or share nude, intimate or sexual images of another person.
  • Edit an image of another person onto a sexually explicit image.
  • Generate a sexually explicit AI Deepfake of another person.
  • Film another person having consensual sex or being sexually assaulted.

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