The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act (1991) and the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act (1984) makes sexual harassment unlawful.

A person is sexually harassed if he or she feels frightened, offended, angry or humiliated by another person's behaviour that is sexual in nature. Sexual harassment can happen to anyone, regardless of his or her sex or age.

Sexual harassment is unwanted and unwelcome sexual attention. It may be sexual harassment when someone:

• stares or leers at a person
• persists in asking a person out after they have said no
• tells dirty jokes or displays offensive print material in a person's presence
• makes unwelcome comments about a person's sex life
• touches or brushes against a person on purpose
• tries to force a person to have sex

Note: Sexual harassment does not apply to normal friendships or relationships based on mutual attraction. The attention must be unwarranted for it to be harassment.