Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

I just want to clarify this; I was preoccupied and am not sure whether I heard your answer correctly. Who will be responsible, subject to a complaint, for the penalty that's imposed in this respect? Senator Leyonhjelm's concern was that a child, a 17-year-old, could be fined $100,000. I'm sympathetic to the point that we accept that children are allowed to make decisions to get into sexual relationships with their peers from the age of 16. Yet we're saying that they're not able to consent to having an intimate image—which conjures up all sorts of suggestions; however, it's not child pornography, as we've described—publicly displayed. Further, I question the circumstances such as the Bill Henson pictures, which caused such a controversy so many years ago—I note the Prime Minister has some—which depicted children in an artistic setting, apparently, without the benefit of clothes. Are they deemed to be intimate pictures, and would someone like Mr Henson be subject to these sorts of penalties?