❓ Mr. Johnson questions the Attorney General's decision to decriminalize prostitution through the Prostitution Amendment Bill 2007, citing concerns about law enforcement, community impact, and the participation of female Labor members. The Attorney General defends the bill as a necessary reform to address police corruption, protect children, enhance public health and safety, and empower local governments.
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PROSTITUTION AMENDMENT BILL 2007
I welcome the decent members in the public gallery today who are here to support the members on this side of the house in their opposition to the Prostitution Amendment Bill 2007. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY
I welcome the decent members in the public gallery today who are here to support the members on this side of the house in their opposition to the Prostitution Amendment Bill 2007. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY
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(1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : This gets them going, doesn’t it? The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat. When the member is given the call to ask a question, he should ask the question. Member for Hillarys. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I refer the Attorney General to his inability to enforce the current law on brothels. (1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(1) Why does the Attorney General choose the easiest option to decriminalise an activity, which he did with cannabis, rather than address it? (2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(2) Why should the people of Western Australia have their suburbs saturated by brothels because the Attorney General chooses the easy option? (3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(3) Why are Labor’s female members no longer allowed to participate in the consideration in detail stage of this bill? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time and the member for Hillarys for the first time. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
(1)-(3) Firstly, ever since the policy of containment was adopted by the police force in Western Australia, which was first revealed in the 1970s royal commission into prostitution in Western Australia, there has been a need to reform the law in this area. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Alfred Cove to order and I warn the member for Nedlands that I have called her to order three times. If I do it again, she will be leaving the chamber. Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : That was recognised most recently by the police royal commission in this state, which advocated that this Parliament show the necessary courage to reform the laws on prostitution because it occasions members of the police force to be exposed to corruption. Similar findings have been made in New South Wales and other places. Therefore, reform is necessary to avoid police corruption. Secondly, we wanted to strengthen the law by making it absolute that children would not be exposed to prostitution in this state. This legislation will enhance the provisions to protect children. Thirdly, this legislation will enhance the health and safety of not only sex workers, but the broader community. Fourthly, this legislation will, for the first time, give local government in this state a real ability to control those sex industries that pose a public nuisance. That is something that has not been able to be enforced in the past, because the running of a brothel has been an illegal activity. We are proposing that in the public interest, for each of those reasons, this industry be regulated. We accept the inevitable fact, undesirable as it might be, that brothels do exist. That is something that the Liberal Party under Richard Court tried to do, and issued press releases that it was going to do, but then did not have the strength to carry that through and effect a very important reform in this area. All Labor members are perfectly free to participate in this debate to the extent they wish to.
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