Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

This bill does not remove the concept of consent and its application to the new offences. It simply builds consent into the text of the offence. While the bill does not define consent, it relies on the ordinary meaning, which is generally understood as free and/or voluntary decision or agreement, and this is clearly stated in the explanatory material for the bill. The previous definition was relevant to determining whether material was offensive. The elements of the new offence do not require the material to be offensive, so the previous definition is obsolete.