Page 355 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 1991
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X-Rated Videos
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Attorney-General and, actually, Mr Duby. Is Mr Duby aware that John Lark and Graham Carr, two directors of a company involved in promoting X-rated videos, have recently been convicted of advertising X-rated videos in a South Australian newspaper in contravention of the local laws; and, would he be prepared to re-look at the suggestion that they are fit and proper persons to be licensed under our regulations in that area?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stevenson for the question. The question is based upon the premise that there have been some convictions. I cannot concede that point; I know nothing about those convictions. On the basis of those supposed convictions in South Australia, I shall take the matter on notice.
Department of Education - Annual Report
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to Mr Humphries. When will you table in the Assembly the long overdue annual report of the education department?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I have, in fact, in the last few days had the opportunity of looking at some matters dealing with issues which are required to be included in that report. As I recall, and I should not be held absolutely to this, there has been a delay in some auditing requirements before the report can be tabled. I have agreed to a short extension of time for that report to come down. As I recall, the extension was until the end of this month. So I hope that I will be able to produce that report to the Assembly in its next sitting after this week.
Fluoridation Inquiry
DR KINLOCH: My question is to Mr Wood, in his role as chair of the Social Policy Committee, and especially vis-a-vis our report on fluoride. I am given to understand from Mr Stevenson's question that a view may have been expressed in the media, or may have been reflected in the media, that the committee's decision to recommend that the level of fluoride should be reduced to .05 parts per million might be related to some kind of political compromise. Could Mr Wood explain - perhaps I should say "re-explain" - the basic rationale behind that decision?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I guess that, by saying "political", whoever used that term means that there was some wheeling and dealing, or bargaining, or something of that nature. I can assure the Assembly that that was not the case. Nobody sat down at any stage and said, "Look, if you do this, I
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