Page 2262 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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The approach of the Government, however, does demonstrate this peculiar and bizarre change of views from opposition to government, but it is not the only demonstration of that. Other speakers from the Opposition will today address themselves to the litany of bizarre behaviour; for example, the refusal to take action concerning Mr Duby's behaviour. The continued retention of Mr Duby in the ministry shows the highest degree of contempt for parliamentary standards. It is this issue which causes me, unfortunately, to revise the previous opinion that I held of the Chief Minister, which Mr Collaery referred to. I had previously had the belief that Mr Kaine would do the right thing. He failed to do so, and my opinion of him must be revised accordingly.
Mr Speaker, the X-rated video question is the topic to which I will be addressing my remarks in this debate. As I say, the Opposition does not agree with Mr Stevenson's views on this. Our views were made clear before. They are views that Mr Collaery personally shares. Adults have rights to see material which has, after all, been passed by a Commonwealth censorship authority. That is not the issue today. The issue today is a government which went to the wall on the issue of X-rated videos. It used it as a substantial factor in its vote of no confidence against the Follett Labor Government and then, six months down the track, it back flips and introduces its own tax on X-rated videos. How Mr Kaine must be regretting that colourful phrase "loot for lust" that he was using in the debate last November. How it has come back to haunt him in this debate.
Mr Speaker, I make an additional point here to distinguish the Opposition's support for this resolution from Mr Stevenson's. Mr Collaery made some considerable effort in his remarks to demonstrate a degree of hypocrisy on Mr Stevenson's part on these issues. Mr Stevenson is not present but perhaps he can hear this upstairs. I would point to that even more remarkable approach of Mr Stevenson the other night on the tax debate when he indicated his support for a tax on X-rated videos of 400 per cent. It all depends on how much loot you get from lust. Mr
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