Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we are renaming the office to the eSafety Commissioner to emphasise the broad coverage for all Australians. At the time of the announcement of Ms Inman-Grant's appointment, we said that the commissioner would take the lead in combating nonconsensual sharing of intimate images. The government, I should also advise, is conducting a public consultation process on a proposed civil penalties regime, targeted at both the perpetrators and sites which host intimate images and video shared without consent. That will be released in the coming months. In parallel, the government has also allocated $4.8 million to the office to develop a national online reporting tool, and that will allow victims to report cases of nonconsensual sharing of intimate images and to access immediate support.