Page 1728 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 18 August 1992
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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.
Petitions received.
PAPER
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to present a petition from interstate petitioners.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I present a petition from 12,755 interstate residents, requesting that the Assembly prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Land Tax
MR KAINE: I would like to direct a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. I note that last week the Chief Minister made much of the fact that ACT land tax arrangements were the same as, or at least comparable to, those in the States and the Territories. Given that, and the fact that the ACT's only two private nursing homes pay land tax while nursing homes of that kind in New South Wales do not pay land tax, will the Chief Minister put some substance in her claim by bringing the ACT into line with the practice in New South Wales in this regard?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I will take Mr Kaine's question on notice. I think that is the best way of getting him a full response on this matter. I would like to say that the purpose of land tax is for commercial enterprises to pay that tax. If the nursing homes are indeed commercial enterprises, as I suspect they are, I would need a very strong precedent before I would contemplate any such change. But, as I say, I will take the question on notice and make sure that Mr Kaine gets a fully researched response.
MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Is the Treasurer saying that, even though private nursing homes are exempt from such tax in New South Wales, she will not necessarily bring them into line, despite her earlier claim on this matter?
MS FOLLETT: I have taken that on notice, Madam Speaker.
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