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whole concept of X-rated videos as a vehicle to push his extreme views.
I join with Mr Collaery in challenging Mr Stevenson. I ask: what are Mr Stevenson's views on important issues such as prostitution, racism, anti-Semitism, and the multifunction polis? These are the big issues, and sometimes one wonders whether they need to be debated here in this Assembly. What are his views on the treatment of women in society, on the provision of refuges, on child-care, on homeless children, on juvenile offenders and the proper care of them, on the mentally ill, on the disabled, and on the issue of drugs in our society? What are your views on these, Mr Stevenson?
We have heard your views on the multifunction polis. We have heard your views on the United Nations convention on the rights of the child. God knows, we have heard your views on X-rated videos. When are you going to get down to some of the real issues which are affecting our society here in the ACT?
Mr Stevenson: Give me unlimited time and you have got it. I challenge you to do that.
MR DUBY: You have had unlimited time, Mr Stevenson. You have had over 12 months.
Mr Stevenson: Do not make a challenge and give no time.
MR DUBY: You have had over 12 months to talk on all of these issues, and not once have you raised your ugly head and said anything about them - not once.
Mr Stevenson: That is not true, and you know it.
MR DUBY: That is true.
Mr Stevenson: Give me time, I challenge you. I return your challenge.
MR DUBY: I challenge you to state when you have spoken on women's refuges, child-care and homeless children. The answer is never.
Dr Kinloch: I raise standing order 61, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR DUBY: Finally, Mr Speaker, I will go to the remarks made by that newly-appointed member of the Assembly, Mr Connolly, who undoubtedly thinks himself to be some sort of debater of note. The point is, of course, that the Follett Government never did bring in any of those regulatory measures. The Follett Government did not support regulatory measures to confine and limit X-rated publications to those areas which the clear majority of the population wanted. We know why, of course. The reason is that that would have been difficult for the X-rated industry. It would have been a reneging on their 8,500
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