"What we will be doing is...increasing the penalties for those who would be found guilty under the existing provisions from 10 years in prison to 15 years in prison," prime minister Scott Morrison told a press conference at Parliament House today.

"Someone who has an offence for forgery or theft of Commonwealth property, they currently get 10 years."

"What you get 15 years for is things like possessing child pornography and financing terrorism. That's how seriously our government takes it."