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

My question is to Senator Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. I refer to the minister’s speech at the National Press Club last week, where she indicated that the government would not require internet service providers to filter out prohibited content before it gets to the family home. Can the minister confirm that 62 members of the coalition backbench have written to the Prime Minister calling for ‘a ban on access to pornographic, violent and other inappropriate material via the internet’? Does the minister stand by her comments at the Press Club that those calling for mandatory filtering, such as her coalition colleagues, are ‘not well informed about the best available technical solutions to internet pornography’?