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Wednesday, 24 June 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER (Ms McRae) took the chair at 10.30 am and read the prayer.
PUBLICATIONS CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
MR STEVENSON (10.31): Madam Speaker, I present the Publications Control (Amendment) Bill 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR STEVENSON: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, education does not work. That is an alarming statement, but that is what we are led to believe by those people that push pornography. We are told that what we see does not influence what we do. TV stations that charge many thousands of dollars for 15-second advertisements would maintain at the same time that pornography does not affect people.
We have been lied to about what pornographers call non-violent erotica. This same non-violent erotica is what child molesters show to children. Brisbane Crown Prosecutor Leanne Hurley told of a case where a man showed his 11-year-old de facto stepdaughter non-violent erotica. People were having fun in it; they were smiling. He then repeatedly raped the 11-year-old girl. What non-violent erotica and pornography show us is a lie. When this stuff is used by child molesters to show young girls and young boys, the children are taught to do what they have been taught to do all their lives - to imitate adult behaviour. That is what children do; that is how children learn.
We are told that non-violent erotica does not cause any problems. The Australian Institute of Criminology says that "normal, loving sexual relationships" do not cause any increase in violence. I am quite sure that they are right, but the problem is that at the time they were referring to the alarming increase in rape in Australia and evidence that it ran parallel with an increase in so-called non-violent erotic X-rated videos. They said that normal, loving sexual relationships do not cause any problems, do not cause some people to commit violence.
What do these videos show? We all know that it is illegal to have children appear in X-rated videos. What they show are pseudo-images of children. These are passed by the Chief Censor. They would show a video called Little Girls Blue which on the back of it has a caption that states, "The sports coach of a girls school has a wild night of sex with two students". This is the good, clean, family, non-violent erotica that we allow to be spread throughout Australia because it harms nobody. There is nobody that would be influenced by watching, by doing what they see.
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