Page 1712 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 17 October 1989
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The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that all State governments, States' Attorneys-General, women's organisations and the majority of men are totally opposed to the importation into Australia and the distribution within Australia of X-rated and excessively violent R-rated video and printed pornography.
Your petitioners therefore request the members of the Legislative Assembly for the ACT to refuse to allow the distribution of X-rated and excessively violent R-rated videos within the ACT or from the ACT.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
by Mr Kaine (from 132 citizens).
Petitions received.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Extermination of Rats
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Community Services and Health. I refer to Marion Frith's column in today's Canberra Times which says:
Remember the rats in a certain street in Downer ... government health inspectors did finally turn up to investigate. Why? "Two reasons", a resident was told. "It got in the paper. And ... it's Rosemary Follett's street".
Can the Minister assure the assembled members that all the rats have been exterminated in this particular street?
MR BERRY: In answer to the last question, there could be no guarantee that all of the rats in that street that Mr Moore mentioned have been exterminated. I have to say that I reject any assertion that the Government would act on the matter only because it was the street where the Chief Minister lives.
Planning Legislation
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. I refer to her statement in the Assembly on 26 July 1989, in referring to a Residents Rally motion on the preparation of drafting instructions for planning legislation, that "I
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