Page 2059 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 5 June 1990
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Mr Moore: But you voted against my Bill. There must have been a reason.
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, I heard an interjection from Mr Moore. He asked why we did not support his Bill. The Attorney-General will answer that query later in this debate. At the moment I am just pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the Labor Party. Indeed, it would appear that the only reason why the Labor Party and Ms Follett are opposed to this Bill is that it restricts the sale to prescribed areas. For them to pretend that this Bill in some way is a backhanded way to ban X-rated material in the ACT is clearly rubbish, given the Government's clear intention to introduce other measures pertaining to the achievement of our budget objective. For them to pretend that this is a backhanded way to ban X-rated materials altogether is clearly ludicrous.
The community is concerned and most members of this Assembly have expressed concern over the very matters of distribution to minors, advertising and general availability, yet somehow the Labor Party says that that does not matter. What it is concerned about is that X-rated material should be available willy-nilly; that it should not be removed from the central city business district.
Why, Mr Speaker? Why would the Labor Party be concerned about the inability of someone in every suburb, on every corner, in every local supermarket, to set up an X-rated distribution centre? It makes one wonder just exactly why and where they are pushing that line. To my knowledge, the only people who have expressed that concern throughout this whole debate have been those in the X-rated industry themselves - AVIA. They are the people who want to have the ability to sell products wherever they may wish to do so. No-one else has expressed that wish. I guess it just goes to show what a good investment $8,500 can be.
Mr Speaker, as I said, the Labor Party has failed to listen to the undoubted views of the population. Ms Follett said that there could be no reason to restrict X-rated material to any area.
Ms Follett: I am still waiting to hear that.
MR DUBY: I have already covered that, Mr Speaker. There have been numerous community voices; numerous people have raised the issue and have said that they object strongly to this material being available willy-nilly.
Ms Follett: None of the letters I received mentioned Fyshwick or Mitchell, not one.
MR DUBY: Those areas - Fyshwick, Mitchell and Hume - are not residential. People opposite already accept that Fyshwick, Mitchell and Hume are going to be those areas to which the X-rated material will be limited. This counters
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