Page 2073 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 5 June 1990
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I should explain the reason for the wording of the part of my amendment which relates to Hume. Some of Hume happens to be in the Jerrabomberra district and some of it happens to be in the Tuggeranong district; that is why the two districts need to be spelt out. I think this is quite a sensible and rational way to handle this particular problem, and it should cause no anguish at all for the Government.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (9.47): I believe that finally I have the opportunity to speak to this amendment. I could have sworn that this was exactly the same motion that the Leader of the Opposition suggested the Labor Party would support. I would be very surprised if its members do not support this particular amendment.
As I started to say before, Mr Speaker, it appears that the Labor Party will want two bob each way on this. First of all, it is opposed to the Bill because it restricts things to areas and now it wants to support this amendment to restrict things to particular areas. The reason that Mr Moore has moved this particular amendment and the reasons that he has enunciated in his eloquent support for it are, frankly, insulting to the Government and to this Assembly. The Attorney-General has given an undertaking and has tabled a copy of the very documents which he will produce in this house on Thursday which specify exactly the areas in which the Government intends that X-rated videos shall be distributed. As I said, I find this amendment an insult, first of all to this Government and secondly to the integrity of the Attorney-General. Naturally we will oppose it.
MR MOORE (9.48): If the Government does wish to take this as an insult then that is fine; I think it is quite appropriate that it does. We have certainly seen Mr Collaery turn about and fail to keep promises on previous occasions so I do not see why he should - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, I would ask you to withdraw that, please.
MR MOORE: For the benefit of the house, Mr Speaker, I will withdraw it. If that is the way the Government wishes to take the amendment then that is fine. But let me warn the Government that what it is doing here by pushing this legislation through tonight is possibly bringing about another debacle like the fluoride debacle. There has not been enough time for people to look at this thoroughly. It is a matter that does not require the sort of urgency that the Government seems to suggest.
Mr Kaine: Well, why are you moving an amendment to put it into place now if it is not urgent?
MR MOORE: Because at the start of the detail stage I quite clearly moved that the matter be adjourned until Thursday.
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