Page 1399 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 26 September 1989
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Your petitioners therefore request the Legislative Assembly to support:
(i) Changes to the planning laws so that the court is not involved.
(ii) The issue of a new crown lease to Concrete Constructions.
by Mr Kaine (from 204 citizens).
X-rated Video Material
To the Speaker and members of the Legislative Assembly.
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens shows that:
In June 1988 all State Attorneys-General called upon the Federal Government to ban X-rated videos.
It is apparent that a majority of Australians object to the present situation whereby X-rated videos are legally distributed throughout Australia from the Australian Capital Territory, notwithstanding the fact that they are banned in all Australian States.
A newspaper survey undertaken in the Australian Capital Territory clearly indicated that the overwhelming majority of ACT citizens want X-rated videos banned.
In particular, concerned citizens object to X-rated video material as detrimental to the status of women and harmful to children.
Your petitioners therefore ask the Assembly to exercise the powers available to it to prohibit the distribution of X-rated video material within and from the Australian Capital Territory. Your petitioners also call upon the Assembly to use all means within its capabilities to influence the Federal Government to ban the importation, production and distribution of X-rated and excessively violent R-rated videos in Australia.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
by Mr Kaine (from 1,196 citizens) and by Mr Collaery (from 951 citizens).
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