Broken Hill teenagers concerned about 'sexting' laws
Broken Hill students have spoken out against laws that classify consensual texting as child pornography.
A solicitor from Legal Aid met with students to discuss "sexting" - sending sexually explicit text messages - as part of a law reform project.
Julianne Elliott, who met with the students, said many weren't aware sexting could be included under child pornography offences.
"There was a strong feeling that they were two very different things," she said.
"People sexting as teenagers, especially where it's a consensual activity, that's very different in their minds from what we would consider to be adult predatory sex offenders, in a more traditional understanding of what child pornography might mean."
The visit was part of a project called 'New voices, new laws' which is gathering the opinions of teenagers from across the state on the issue.
Ms Elliott said the opinions of the teenagers will form the basis of the project.
"In terms of law reform or writing to whoever we might be writing to, to at least let the people who make policy and law change decisions what young people actually think of the situation," she said.
"Those voices are the voices of young people, and we wanted to include that in any work around law reform on this issue."
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