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Tuesday, 11 August 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER (Ms McRae) took the chair at 2.30 pm and read the prayer.
PETITIONS
The Clerk: The following petitions have been lodged for presentation:
By Mr Humphries, from 1,532 residents, requesting that the Assembly prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
By Mr Stevenson, Mr Westende and Ms Szuty, from 658, 5,766 and 219 residents, respectively, requesting that the Assembly legislate to permit the use of exotic and other animals in circuses.
By Mr De Domenico, from 422 residents, requesting that the Assembly reject any attempt to permit the establishment of a free-standing abortion clinic in the ACT.
By Mr Lamont, two petitions of similar wording, from 3,393 and 68 residents, respectively, requesting that the Assembly ban performances in the ACT by all circuses which include animal acts or animal sideshows.
The terms of these petitions will be recorded in Hansard and a copy referred to the appropriate Minister.
X-Rated Material, Pornography and Violence
The petition read as follows:
To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:
The petition of the undersigned citizens and residents of Australia draws to the attention of the Assembly the fact that the availability of mail order X-rated material and goods from the Territory has caused Australia to surpass the highest world statistics for sexual crimes.
Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to:
- prohibit the availability of all X-rated material from the 1983 Ordinance
- prohibit the POSSESSION of child pornography by amending the 1983 Ordinance
- prohibit considerable violence and all forms of sexual violence in the 1983 Ordinance.
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