Page 1004 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 26 July 1989
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And so we move on. Are the interests of the ACT protected in this Bill? I believe they are. I have great confidence in the Chief Censor, his team and the Films Board of Review. I mention again that John Dickie was an inhabitant of this city for at least 12 years; one of the team is Andre Wright, a former student of mine, BA (Hon), ANU; and here in the Territory on the Films Board of Review is Mary Madeleine Finn, a barrister and solicitor of the ACT.
However, members of the Assembly, I do now confess a great sense of personal disappointment - I will not keep you long. I thought, "At last, here is my chance. Surely, at the very least, a significant select committee to investigate the film culture of the ACT, an opportunity perhaps for a private member's movie-on Bill. Evidence would have to be taken, of course, in Hong Kong, Bombay, London, Paris, New York and Hollywood, with an extensive trip through Scandinavia". I was pondering on discussing with various members of the Assembly which of them would like to accompany me, and the hardship involved in such a trip.
But it would appear these necessary researches will have to await another Bill and another day. So I urge the acceptance of this small, careful, tidy, well-marked and attractively labelled, little Bill.
MR STEFANIAK (5.02): Unfortunately, Mr Speaker, I got out last night a nice little book I bought, of only about 100 pages, called Con's Bewdiful Australia. In it is a section about mail order, and I was going to relate a story from that book, about Con getting his family together when he got from his cousin, Nick Pykoulas, who distributes X-rated videos from Canberra, a little film called Sinderella.
Con thought this would be a top little film for the family to see because, as he said, he thought it was a story for "the childrens" so he got "the childrens" together - Toula, Voula, Foula, Agape - and his wife Marika and even his mother Aphrodite. He said that about five minutes after he put the film on he could not believe that people were doing such things to each other, and he certainly hoped they were married. His mother, Aphrodite, then accused him of being a sex maniac and chased him out of the house, much to the amusement of the neighbours. After she had finished "chasing, chasing, chasing, chasing" poor old Con around the neighbourhood, they got back, and he was most perturbed to see that Marika and the children had watched the film twice.
Mr Humphries: How is Sinderella spelt?
MR STEFANIAK: With an "S". I believe there is a video called Sinderella. Basically in relation to the Film Classification (Amendment) Bill, I would agree with the comments made by my colleague and a very learned expert in this area, Dr Kinloch, who certainly has seen a lot more films, not only because of his age but also because of his
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