Page 2521 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER (Ms McRae) took the chair at 2.30 pm and read the prayer.
PETITION
The Clerk: The following petition has been lodged for presentation:
By Mr Humphries, from 72 residents, requesting that the Assembly prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
The terms of this petition 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.
Petition received.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
ACTION - Expenditure Cuts
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to Mr Berry as Minister for Industrial Relations. Mr Berry, would you give the Assembly an assurance that you totally support the decisions and positive action taken by your colleague Mr Connolly to cut unnecessary expenditure in the operation of ACTION buses?
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