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

It will be dealt with township by township. The reason for the education is not that we want to describe what pornography is; it is simply about having a clear understanding of exactly what the legislation says you can and cannot have—for example, what the penalties are and the whole process of introducing new legislation. That would be done at the same time as having a clear understanding about alcohol and other prohibited substances under the act. It would be an educational provision. But it is not only about saying, ‘So, you understand what pornography is.’ That is not the intent. It would be a discussion about what were the prohibited items so that everybody would have a clear understanding of what was a prohibited item and what was not. That would be the clear intent of the educational process. As I have indicated, it would be done township by township. There are some townships, for example, that we have not gone into yet; and there are some townships that would require, simply because of our knowledge of the assessment, an interdiction later in the piece than those with a much higher level of requirement. We will rolling them out as a matter of priority, but it will also be in the context that some communities are extremely dysfunctional and the people in those communities are at a higher level of risk than those in the other communities that have been assessed. We will be doing it in terms of the priority of protecting those townships that have been assessed as being most at risk.