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

10:22 pm

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

Again, the important part is to ensure there is an educational process. Exactly how that will take shape, I will have to take on notice. But I am informed that it will be as any educational process would be. There would be a whole suite of ways you would help and assist the community to understand what our intent is. That would be done through a variety of ways. It is normally a suite of either media or interaction. One would imagine that in these communities most of the time it would involve public forums. So there would be networking and interaction of individuals who had a better understanding, who would be able to talk to other members of the community. There is a whole suite of consultation processes that take place quite often in these communities, and we would be utilising those processes.

In terms of what would happen at the end of that, it is simply unlawful to be in possession of a certain classification of pornography. That is a matter for the police, and the police will have to behave lawfully in that matter. When the police are ensuring that there is no pornography in the community, it will be in the same way as if there was alcohol in the community. It is a matter for the police. The police have processes of investigation—people will tell them, and they have processes of networking. It is the same way that police would operate in any criminal matter.

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