Canberra should be renamed "Pornberra" and marked on the map with an X, Queensland Senator Lady Bjelke-Petersen (Nat), The Canberra Times reported on the front page on this day 31 years ago.
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Senator Bjelke-Petersen was speaking during an urgency motion introduced to the Senate by the Opposition spokesman on the ACT, Senator Robert Hill.
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The motion said that the Government should be follow the wishes of the state and Commonwealth Attorneys-General and ban X-rated (explicit sex) videos, thereby ending the Government's "hypocrisy" in "claiming a commitment" to improving the status of women, shown by criticising the advertising industry for their portrayal, while not banning the videos.
Senator Bjelke-Petersen said that, as a mother and a grandmother, "any issues which affect women and families rate the highest priority with me".
"I don't think I've ever been more worried about the future of families in Australia than I am at this moment," she said.
She said her role was that anything that could not be seen on television should not be hired or sold, although even this was a wide scope. Although parents were responsible for what their children watched, they could not always be there to supervise viewing, and the Government should legislate.