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and classified the publication as "Restricted category 1". This means that the printed insert must be placed in a sealed wrapper and must not be sold to persons under the age of 18. The Board of Review declined to hear argument on the T-shirt.
I applaud the public spirited action of the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre and Carmel Maher. Their concerns about this issue were well founded. Partly because of the mess that the Commonwealth has made in splitting the functions of censorship and classification, we now have a classification for the record cover insert as "Restricted", but the T-shirt, which I have here, Mr Speaker, remains unclassified. Wearing the T-shirt may render the person liable under our local laws; but that is, of course, a matter for the courts. And, members, particularly Mr Stevenson, that remains available due to the absolutely disgraceful state of Commonwealth censorship laws.
Murrumbidgee River - Sand Mining
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, I am sure you are aware of the New South Wales Ombudsman's report about mining in the Murrumbidgee River which reveals, as Mr Langmore put it during the adjournment debate in the House of Representatives on 5 December this year:
... singularly unacceptable behaviour by the Yass Shire Council, the New South Wales Department of Water Resources and a company known as Tharwa Sands Pty Ltd, whose complicity has meant 15 years of sheer vandalism along the Murrumbidgee.
I ask the Chief Minister to tell me what measures are being taken to ensure the enforcement of point 3.6 of the Alliance Government's own environment policy, which states:
Alliance Government authorities and departments will not be permitted to use sand and gravel extracted from the Murrumbidgee River in NSW.
Is that being enforced?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I know that some unusual allegations were made within the House of Representatives recently by one of our local members. It is also my understanding that the Yass Shire Council, for example, has refuted the allegations. I understand that the person against whom the allegations were made has also refuted them. I understand that whatever is being done on the Murrumbidgee is being done under the full control of the New South Wales pollution control authorities and I am not satisfied that there is the problem that Mr Langmore has asserted there is.
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