Page 2300 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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This Assembly does not support my personal view either because, if it did, it would have banned X-rated videos months ago. A vote of the Assembly was taken in April and it was defeated, Mr Speaker, as you will recall. Such videos continue to be available legally in the Australian Capital Territory as a result of that vote, Mr Connolly's subterfuge notwithstanding. I would love to see whether he pulls that one if ever he gets into government. He will be the laughing-stock of the Territory if he does, and he knows it. If he pulls that stunt in government he will be dead.
Since then the Assembly has gone further, imposing a 40 per cent tax on the wholesale revenue of these X-rated videos. In these times of financial stringency, I have little alternative but to accept the Assembly's view - the majority view - and apply that tax. There is clearly no contradiction on my part; my position is clear. If ever I lead a Liberal government that can ban this product, it will be banned.
Mr Connolly: You can ban it tomorrow.
MR KAINE: You know that is not true, Mr Connolly.
Mr Connolly: It is absolutely true.
MR KAINE: Push your line. It is another distortion, another misrepresentation, and you know it. But keep on pushing it, mate, because you are in Hansard and I will make sure that this comes back to haunt you.
Mr Wood: The Rally did not want the tax; the Liberals did not want the tax; who wanted the tax, for heaven's sake?
Mr Duby: I did.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I sat for three hours and listened carefully, but these people are not prepared to listen to me. I hope they will give me an extension of time when the time comes.
Mr Berry: Well, do not waste what you have got left.
MR KAINE: No, you are wasting it by heckling and by preventing me from speaking. You are still doing it. Just keep it up. You do not want to hear what I have to say. You expect me to listen to you, but you do not want to hear me. Keep going; you are making my point for me.
Mr Wood: But you are also the chief interjector as well as the Chief Minister.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
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