Page 1259 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 11 May 1993
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Question put:
That the amendment (Ms Szuty's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 9 NOES, 8
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly
Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Mr Moore Mr Lamont
Mr Stevenson Ms McRae
Ms Szuty Mr Wood
Mr Westende
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 4 to 19, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 20
MS SZUTY (9.56): Madam Speaker, I wish to indicate to the Assembly that I will be opposing this particular clause, which has been the subject of our discussion tonight, prohibiting kick boxing.
MR MOORE (9.57): Madam Speaker, in some ways the debate this evening has been based on a very adversarial system. I think that it is an appropriate opportunity to quote from "Violence - Directions for Australia - National Committee on Violence" in the section on boxing. It is appropriate because I think that that committee had exactly the same problems as this Assembly did, with some of its members wishing to see a complete ban on boxing. That appears as a minority report in the back of this publication. The majority of them came down against that recommendation.
What is clear from a reading of this very informative document on violence in Australia, Madam Speaker, is that the issue is difficult. I think that the one thing that does come through tonight is that members are genuinely concerned - it seems that all members are genuinely concerned - about the reduction of violence, but some of us would go about it in a different way. Those of us who are voting against this clause and who voted previously for Ms Szuty's amendment are consistent with the majority report on boxing - not kick boxing, but boxing - in this document, and, I think, consistent with the spirit of this document. I note in it, Madam Speaker, that the World Medical Association in 1984 recommended the complete banning of boxing. Had Mr Berry actually had the courage of his own convictions that he has presented tonight, and had he been consistent, of course, he would have sought to ban boxing.
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