Page 2278 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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bucks. It just goes to show you how cheap the Labor Party is to buy. Eight and a half grand is all it takes.
This specious argument that Mr Connolly came up with, that the Alliance Government now has a backhanded way of banning X-rated videos by not bringing in the regulations which the Attorney-General has given a firm commitment to do, just shows you that this man is really and truly an intellectual lightweight. We listened to a 10-minute harangue from him on this very issue when he went over the same point again and again. I will put a similar argument to him to show how ludicrous his complaint is. He is saying that, because the Alliance Government per se allowed a conscience vote on the issue, the Alliance Government in joint party can now gang up on those people who do not support a banning of things and say that it is now the Alliance Government's view that these things should be banned.
I give him a similar example. What happens in the Labor Caucus in the Federal Parliament if there are more Catholic members who may be opposed to abortion than not? Does that then give the Labor Caucus the right to instruct the Government to ban abortion? Of course not. It is a ludicrous argument that he put up. I have never heard of such a thing. This is a very good indication of the level of debate that we can expect from Mr Connolly. When you think about it, I suppose it is just the sort of act that a ratbag group like the mob of factions we have got over there would try to pull.
Then they talk about hypocrisy, and we have the ludicrous situation where these champions of the Adult Video Industry Association abstain. They have not got the guts to let their views be known in the Assembly; they abstain on the whole debate. They do not just abstain on the vote, Mr Deputy Speaker; they abstain on even participating because they do not have the guts to let people know where they stand. This is the simple fact of the matter.
Mr Collaery: Put their vote where their money was.
MR DUBY: That is right. They did not have the guts to put their vote where their money was. What a good line! Thank you for that. Mr Deputy Speaker, this whole motion is specious, and I reject it entirely.
MR JENSEN (12.16): Mr Deputy Speaker, from the outset let me indicate that I will speak only briefly on this matter today because, as my colleague Mr Duby has said, this is a specious debate. It is a clear and utter waste of time on the part of the Assembly today. There is much more important business to be done today. There are Bills to be passed and there is work to be done.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I will be voting against this motion put forward by Mr Stevenson today. As a member of the Rally, I joined my colleagues in the Alliance Government with a view to providing a stable majority government for the benefit
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