Page 5058 - Week 16 - Wednesday, 27 November 1991
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the X-rated capital of Australia. As Mr Stevenson said a short while ago, we also are about to be the prostitution capital and the drug capital. He can use all these emotive phrases which are easy to throw off the tongue and which will influence a small number of people.
The reality is that not enough explanation has been given as to what this Bill will achieve, apart from the points that I have made quite clear that I am happy about, accept and agree with. These amendments upon amendments upon amendments that are being thrown around at the moment are entirely inappropriate and I think it is appropriate that this Bill be adjourned at the detail stage. It is very much a backdoor method of putting the X-rated video industry entirely out of business in the ACT and it is exactly - - -
Mr Stevenson: No, not in the ACT, throughout Australia.
MR MOORE: Mr Stevenson interjects, "No, not in the ACT, throughout Australia". I take his point that it may have an impact as far as the ACT goes, but it certainly will not have an impact in Australia. New South Wales has X-rated videos banned. If Mr Stevenson wants to understand what that means he should go to Kings Cross. He will find that he can buy an X-rated video at any stage. He will find not just X-rated videos but violent pornography.
Mr Duby: Child pornography.
MR MOORE: And child pornography. What he is doing and what Mr Collaery is doing by this move, as I read it, and as I understand his amendments upon the amendments, is pushing us to a position where X-rated movies will be pushed underground. As soon as they are underground we will have the same as they have in New South Wales. It is there to see; you only have to walk into Kings Cross and go into one of those shops.
I did it myself because I wanted to know whether it was true because I had heard stories. There was no difficulty whatsoever in walking straight into one of those shops and asking, "What do you have? Have you a catalogue?" getting the response, "Yes, I have a catalogue"; and saying, "Can I see what you have? I am not interested in this. I am interested in something with a bit more punch". Before you know it, bang, there we are.
It is not difficult to get other than non-violent pornography in New South Wales. You will find that exactly the same situation will arise here as a result of the sort of things that are being presented today. They are the sorts of matters that we have to consider. They are the sorts of matters upon which we should base this decision, not make a quick ad hoc decision on an amendment that has been written now and is going to have a major impact on the
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