Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister aware of comments by her colleague Senator Barnett that ‘as members of parliament we have a duty of care to ensure that pornographic and violent sites are not available to children’? Does the minister agree with Senator Barnett? If so, Minister, why won’t the government act to require internet service providers to block access to thousands of websites identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority as containing prohibited content like child pornography?