Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I refer to a press release by the Australian Sex Party, which was issued just the other day. It makes a reference to a number of claims about what I have said which are untrue. It says:

Mr Morrison has proposed a change to our national censorship laws …

It further says that I had said:

… consensual adult erotica could potentially be more damaging than guns.

This is not true. What I said related to state laws, the New South Wales Classification (Publication, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995. I said that the exemption that applies to parents that enables them to show kids pornographic material should be removed as it appears not only in this act but in a number of other acts. My other comment was that if we can protect our children from guns we can certainly protect them from porn.

On another matter, today during the debate over the proposed censure motion the Deputy Prime Minister indicated that I had made claims in this place about schools in my electorate that are untrue. I do not know how the minister was able to announce the results of an investigation she has not undertaken. During question time, I provided her with the follow-up information to those schools. So I do not know how she can claim they are untrue when she did not know what the school was.

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