Australia: Online safety and other legislation amendment (My face, My rights) Bill 2025, including content moderation authority governance was introduced to Senate

On 24 November 2025, the Online safety and other legislation amendment (My face, My rights) Bill 2025, including content moderation authority governance, was introduced to the Senate. The Bill defines deepfake material as any realistic, technology-generated, or altered image, audio, or audio-visual content that falsely depicts an Australian person’s face, voice, or their attributes. The Bill amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to include provisions for the eSafety Commissioner to administer a complaints system for deepfake material. The Bill enables the Commissioner to investigate complaints filed by a subject to a deepfake and to issue a removal notice to social media platforms and hosting service providers when non-consensual deepfake material remains online 48 hours after a complaint from the deepfake subject, requiring the provider to remove it within 24 hours. The Bill retains the existing functions of the Commissioner, including handling cyber-bullying, cyber-abuse, and intimate image complaints.