Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I concur with the views that Senator Wortley has just put forward. I recognise that this is a growing and huge matter for debate. One only had to look at the Herald Sun on the weekend to confirm the concerns expressed by a lot of people in the community about the violence that passes for entertainment, no matter where you look. I was in Sydney on the weekend and I wanted to go to the pictures but it was very difficult to find a movie that was not predicated on the theme of violence. I was not going to pay $15 to be depressed about that.

However, the questions about the global culture of violence are ones that we are going to have to deal with. We will support any step along that road, and we support this legislation. But I expect that we are going to have to go into much more difficult territory to counter this culture of violence, before some sort of probity is brought into place to stop those people who want to capitalise on violence in order to make money and profit. They do our society no good.