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

Since our intervention I think many of the reports have validated that there is explicit pornography in those communities, and I think substantially we have dealt with that. We are currently discussing ways of ensuring that there are some adult channels that you can purchase at the moment that you will not be able to purchase. We are having discussions with the providers of those services, to look at ways that we can have more control of that. We are in a discussion process at the moment. The current provisions are for specifically classified pornography. It is quite a clear classification. As I understand it, those channels, whilst they may well be harmful—and we understand that may be the case—are not the intention under the existing provisions. But we are looking very carefully at ensuring that we do have provisions, community by community, to ensure that there is some capacity to ensure that they cannot be delivered in certain areas, should that assessment be made. We are in the middle of discussions on that particular issue.