Page 1248 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 24 April 1990
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are best combated not by censorship, but by criticism, censure and stigmatisation in the marketplace of ideas.
Maybe all videos and television programs should display warning signs that they are only fiction, figments of someone's imagination - they are not real life - and should not be - - -
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
PUBLICATIONS CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Debate resumed.
MS MAHER: I will start again. Maybe all videos and television programs should display warning signs that they are only fiction, figments of someone's imagination - they are not real life - and should not be considered as role models for behaviour in the real world.
It concerns me greatly also that some X-rated videos which have been cut and adapted to fit the R classification can be easily found in local suburban shopping centres within viewing range of our children. What I also find just as disturbing is the fact that they show the same covers which would have been on display for the X-rated versions. I find this appalling. This is an area in which the industry needs to be tightly regulated, especially where young children are concerned.
Many of the R-rated movies are more offensive than X-rated ones. R-rated movies can be violent, show rape, drug and alcohol abuse and acts without consent. The only thing that they do not show is the actual act of sexual penetration, but then in R-rated videos sexual acts can be realistically portrayed, and with today's expertise and technology they are realistically portrayed. The rest is left to the imagination. I believe the sooner these videos are out of range of young children the better off we and they will be. I believe that the chief censor needs to revise urgently all video classifications.
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