Headlining the announcement was $925 million in funding to help people flee abusive relationships, but there was also a suite of measures to combat the spread of toxic attitudes towards women online.
This is what we know about those programs.
Banning deep-fake pornography
One of the main policies to come out of the national cabinet meeting was the criminalisation of deep-fake pornography.
The new laws will be introduced by the federal government. Under them, both creating and sharing deep-fake pornography will be illegal, although the specific penalties have not been announced.
“When I have spoken to parents around the country, they expressed their concern about the exposure of young boys and young men to violent videos and imagery online,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
“We will introduce legislation to ban the creation and distribution of deep-fake pornography,” he added.
“Sharing sexually explicit material using technology like artificial intelligence will be subject to serious criminal penalties.”
The government is also committing $6.5 million in the upcoming federal budget to test out online age assurance (or age verification) technology.
The tech verifies and estimates the age of an internet user to prevent them from accessing inappropriate material online.
“The pilot will identify available age-assurance products and assess their efficacy including in relation to privacy and security,” Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said.
“The outcomes of this pilot will support the eSafety Commissioner’s ongoing regulatory work to implement codes or standards under the Online Safety Act to reduce children’s exposure to inappropriate content and that includes online pornography.… (and) other types of content that are unsuitable for minors to see such as detailed and graphic portrayals of real violence.”
In a related move, the government also touted its ongoing reform of Australia’s classification scheme â the program that includes the ratings given to films and TV shows.
“There’s growing certain about the role of violent online pornography in normalising gendered violence within the Australian community,” Rowland said.
“In response to these concerns, the government is undertaking a long overdue classification review with states and territories which will examine options to reduce exposure to violent pornography.”
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The classification scheme includes the ratings given to the likes of films and TV shows, but Rowland says it wasn’t designed for the digital world.
“Australians by and large trust the classification scheme,” she said.
“The problem is that it is out of date… predominantly designed for a time when we went to the movies to watch films, we purchased books, you might have purchased videogames from a store in a physical context.”
This isn’t a new reform though â the government began seeking public consultation on the classifications scheme in early April. 
A new stage of the federal government’s Stop It At The Start campaign against violence against women will go live midway through next month and will run for about a year.
“This new phase will include a counter-influencing campaign in online spaces where violent and misogynistic content thrives to directly challenge the material in the spaces that it’s being viewed,” Albanese said.
“I know as a parent of two young boys that there is a lot of stuff that I’m not aware of and don’t know and don’t understand what they might be influenced by or be challenged about on the online world,” Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said.
“So we do know that we need a conversation about this, we do know that we need to give parents the support and resources to have those conversations, and we do need to counter this violent online material.”
The government has committed to introduce laws banning the malicious release of someone’s private information online â otherwise known as doxxing â in August.
It opened public consultation on the matter in March after hundreds of Australian Jewish creatives had their details leaked online amid discussions about the Israel-Hamas war, but doxxing has long affected women impacted by domestic violence.
Albanese and Rowland also both touted the government’s previously announced decision to bring forward the review of the Online Safety Act by a year.
A report into that legislation is due to be handed down in October, Rowland announced in February.
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