By working with the Federal Government.

Under the new Anti-Terrorism laws that were introduced by the Abbott Government earlier this year the federal government and federal police now reserve the rights to not only spy on what people are doing on the internet on desktops, laptops, IPADS, Mobile phones etc they can also store up to three years of our data which means everyone in Australia will be investigated at some point in time and if sexting becomes illegal and a person has been doing it they will be caught. The punishment for it will only be two years jail time maximum from what I have heard which could possibly mean you will get a fine or sentenced to doing community service for a while depending on how serious the offense or in a case like this how graphic the photos are. The Abbott Government’s new Anti-Terrorism laws are already in force and while they were seen by some people as an invasion of privacy they were still passed.

My Wife and I didn’t vote for Tony Abbott or the Liberal Party at the last election because we believe they are a bunch of morons to put it plainly but we both support their Anti-Terrorism laws because if they help the federal police track down terrorists and prevent terrorist attacks from occurring (which they claim they have) giving them full access to our online history was worth it. We are already being watched when we go online by corporations that use spyware to build profiles on us based on things we look at online and try to advertise products they want us to buy and I trust the government more than I trust any corporation with our data. I don’t support banning sexting in Victoria though but the problem is there seems to be a lot of high up people here that do and it is the same people that stop gay and lesbian marriages from becoming legalised and the people in other states are the same.

I agree with you that parents need to talk to children more about sexting but I personally don’t think children should even have mobile phones. Maybe I am just getting old but back when I was in school I didn’t have a mobile phone and my Wife didn’t either – in fact nobody did and when we wanted to talk to our friends we would go to their houses and talk to them. Nowadays you see kids as young as seven years old with mobile phones that live on them and there are people that so addicted to using them they act like it is the end of the world if they break down. I am personally glad that I grew up in the pre-texting/pre-social networking era and I prefer the way it was before. My Step Daughter does not have a mobile phone and my Wife doesn’t think any of our kids should have one until they are at least 16 or 17.