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but not the heavy judgmental system that goes with it. We will eliminate the fingerprinting, the parading, the public ignominy and the alienation, and then take renewed steps to combat commercial marketing of the drug. I commend the Bills to the house.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
LIQUOR (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1991
MR COLLAERY (11.12): Mr Speaker, I present the Liquor (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, I anticipate, subject to the will of the Assembly, that this Bill will be debated cognately with the Bill that I just presented in relation to drugs of dependence. Briefly, section 53 of the Liquor Act allows a registrar to deal with the cancellation of licences relating to liquor establishments. This provision seeks to insert a new ground - and it is a ground only; it is not prescriptive or mandatory. That ground is set out in the Bill and it provides that, where, in any period of 12 months, more than two persons have been convicted of an offence committed on the licensed premises, the licence can be reviewed.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
CRIMES (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 3) 1991
MR COLLAERY (11.14): I present the Crimes (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, on 21 December 1989, the High Court decided in S v. the Queen, reported in volume 64 of the Australian Law Journal Reports, page 126, that there was a need for specificity in counts of an indictment relating to alleged multiple acts of incest. In simple language, the case highlighted the difficulty of securing a conviction when a child cannot remember the dates of sexual abuse. It has been said that only a small proportion of declared cases of child abuse result in prosecution. This is due to a variety of factors - some for reasons to do with the well-being of the child, but, in most other cases, because there is little evidence of what has happened, apart from the word of the child.
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