Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008

In Committee

10:20 pm

Photo of Nigel ScullionNigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

As in all these matters, first of all we would start off with an education process to explain exactly what pornography is. Then we would ensure that people handed any such material over. The next process would be to examine whether people who had a video machine, a DVD machine or a computer had in fact handed over all the material that this legislation seeks to prohibit from those lands. So it would be a three-tiered process: firstly, the educational process; secondly, the voluntary hand-over of material, which is what would happen in this case; and, lastly, a search of areas to ensure that this sort of material did not exist.

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