Bill
Criminal Code Amendment (Using Technology to Generate Child Abuse Material) Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2026-03-03.
- Sponsor
- Kate Chaney
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-07-28
- second reading — 2025-07-28
- other — 2026-03-03
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-07-28.
The bill would create new criminal offences for using technology, especially generative AI, to make or train tools that produce child abuse material.
It would criminalise using a carriage service to download, access, or supply technology whose sole or dominant purpose is creating child abuse material, and to collect or distribute data for training such technology.
The bill provides limited defences for conduct in the public interest, such as law enforcement, compliance monitoring, or research approved in writing by the AFP Minister.
- Creates new offences targeting misuse of emerging technologies, particularly generative AI, to produce child abuse material.
- Criminalises downloading, accessing, supplying, or offering access to technology with the sole or dominant purpose of creating child abuse material.
- Criminalises collecting, scraping, or distributing data to train or develop technology for creating child abuse material.
- Provides limited defences for public benefit conduct, including law enforcement, compliance monitoring, and AFP Minister-approved research.
Individuals who use carriage services to create or distribute technology for generating child abuse material, and those engaged in legitimate public interest activities such as law enforcement and approved research.
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