No More Green Lights to the Red Light Industry

Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
J Grant
23 Rhyde Street
TOOWOOMBA QLD
Total Signatures - 42
Sponsoring Member: Mark McArdle MP
Posting Date: 9/8/2005
Tabled Date: 9/8/2005
Responded By: Referred Minister
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The alarming recommendations of the Crime and Misconduct Commission’s report entitled "Regulating Adult Entertainment:
A review of the live adult entertainment industry in Queensland". Some of these recommendations, if adopted, will further
erode community values and expand and normalise the activities of the exploitive and regarding "sex industry".

Your petitioners therefore request the House to reject any recommendations within the report which expands the scope
of this industry through legalisation of illegal activities, including:

• Recommendation 7, which proposes the establishment of Adult Entertainment Licence Special Permit 1, legalising acts
involving graphic full nudity including self-penetration and lesbian/group simulated sex acts.
• Recommendations 12, 15 and 26, which weaken the regime of probity checks and criteria for suitability of persons to
hold an Adult Entertainment Licence.
• Recommendation 18, which permits a holder of Adult Entertainment Licence Special Permit 2 to provide ‘noncontact
dating’ services to clients, creating a potential front for the provision of prostitution in an illegal manner.

Furthermore we request the House to endorse recommendations from the report which protect minors and the community
through enhanced regulation, enforcement and penalties.