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Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCE CENTRE

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:15): A supplementary question: I take heart from hearing that some items of the collection will probably be available, and I can imagine Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Boston Women's Collective handbook, would probably be readily available in many other places, but I am very concerned that we are going to be accessing this collection online, given it has a lot of gender identity, sexuality, and particular lesbian—

The PRESIDENT: Order! Sit down. That is not a supplementary question: it is a statement.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: Will the government confirm that their national broadband scheme with the internet filter will not actually stop people from being able to access these items in the collection?

The PRESIDENT: Why didn't you do that in the first place instead wasting the time of the house making statements? You must learn to do a supplementary. You are not going to get away with it. This is not the house down the road. This is the house ruled by the President.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (15:16): There are many ways to access information, and access via the internet is not the only way. I understand that there are a range of considerations and discussions occurring. Even if this particular resource centre did not remain open—and, as I said, as far as I know there has been no final decision on this at all—there is nothing to say that the collection or parts of the collection could not be made available through other resource centres. One has to be sensible about these things. I am not too sure that the only alternatives are this particular resource centre or the internet; I think there are a range of different considerations that are potential options. As I stress, as far as I am concerned, there has been no final decision in respect of the women's resource centre.

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