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Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to:
REJECT ANY LEGISLATION TO LEVY A 1% TAX ON THE UNIMPROVED VALUE OF RENTED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES.
By Mr Moore (from 109 residents), Mrs Grassby (from 100 residents), Mr Collaery (from 103 residents), Mr Duby (from 105 residents), and Mr Stefaniak (from 131 residents).
Petitions received.
PAPER
MRS NOLAN: I ask leave to present a petition which does not conform with standing orders, as it does not contain a request.
Leave granted.
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, I present an out-of-order petition from 225 residents opposing the proposal to close the two remaining agistment paddocks within the confines of Hall village.
PUBLICATIONS CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Debate resumed from 11 September 1991, on motion by Mr Stevenson:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
DR KINLOCH (10.32): I want to say very little. In some ways, it would be helpful for many of us if we could say, "Please look at previous Hansards". I want to sum up quickly a point of view I have. There are six States in Australia with legislation that imposes bans and restrictions on certain categories of films - films that are described as X-rated or pornographic films. My strongest feeling is that it is not for the ACT to be a legislative entity which violates the laws of six States, especially as we are the legislature within the national capital of the national capital. Whatever we may think of the legislation of those States, we ought not, especially as we live in the middle of one of them - New South Wales - to be in a position day by day of violating that legislation. That is one major area of concern I have.
The second is this: Several years ago, the national Parliament had a committee on the matter of pornography which produced two fat volumes of very detailed material. The Federal Parliament has yet to act on that material.
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