Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

We know that material like this is very dangerous in these communities at this time. In the event that a period of time passed—let us say a year or so—and there were no applications and nobody said, ‘Listen, I would like a hand,’ is there any consideration of a fallback position in which you would say, ‘Well, we cannot naturally assume that they really all want to have R18+ material in their communities’? Is there a fallback position? For example, if you have police reports that the sexualisation of children is still continuing—they somehow find a whole bunch of kids sitting around watching ‘Debbie Does Godzilla II’ and they know that this is happening from information received anecdotally from police officers—is the minister then capable of independently declaring it a prescribed area?