If the Government's current plan is implemented, a glaring inconsistency will remain. X-18+ material hosted in Australia will still be subject to take-down whereas X-18+ material hosted overseas will not.

Yet, the Government now claims that it has no intention to filter a broader range of material, despite earlier stating the clear intention to filter all 'prohibited online content' which does include otherwise legal X-18+ material.

Will this inconsistency be allowed to stand when parents discover that the only kind of material that is any way likely to be the subject of inadvertent exposure is precisely a class of material the Government has now pledged not to subject to a mandatory filtering regime? Or will the Government once again vary the objectives of its policy, in the name of consistency, in order to include a broader range of material?