Mr QUICK (10:25 AM) —I, like other speakers in the chamber today, congratulate the government on this initiative. I think it makes real commonsense. It obviously has bipartisan support. A couple of issues came to mind as I listened to the debate this morning. One of those is the suggestion by the member for Gellibrand that we should have a continuous classification logo on movies. We see that WIN TV, in particular, have their little logo for the duration. I am not too sure whether or not it is to discourage you from videotaping whatever is on television, but I do think that a continuous classification logo on movies would be a great idea.

One thing that worries me is that the explanatory memorandum says that states and territories are going to pass complementary legislation. I would be interested to find out what the time frame for this is. Knowing some of the states and territories as I do, they have got such a backlog of legislation and they meet so infrequently that one wonders whether this is going to take 18 months, two years; whether there is a time frame for Commonwealth and state agencies to sit down and work this out.

Another thing that worries me is, when you go into video stores, whether these new 15+ computer games are going to just be up there with bestsellers, top rating things, or whether there is going to be a discrete section in the video stores of 15+ video games, so that young kids do not wander in. If you visit a video store, as I do reasonably infrequently, you find it is just a great big barn. There is stuff all over the walls and people wander around. You are grabbed only at the end, when you rock up to the counter with whatever you have got. There is no real perusal of whether you are there looking at MA15s and you are eight years of age and scanning what is on the box. I would be interested to know who is monitoring this, whether there is going to be a discrete 15+ section for computer games.

As I say, this bill has bipartisan support. As federal members, each and every one of us will be alerting our constituents through our newsletters to the changes that have been proposed in this Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment Bill 2004. I congratulate the government and the minister for doing this. It is interesting that the original bill was in 1995 and, in less than 10 years, we are now aligning both films and computer games. People, when they introduced the original 1995 bill, did not realise the way computer games were going to take over many people's lives. For most of the young people that I am in contact with, much to their educational edification, these computer games are taking over their lives. Some people are even saying that our thumbs are going to be more useful than our fingers. I again congratulate the government, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak on the bill this morning.