G-Rated Outdoor Advertising with Health Committee for 9 months

Referral to the Health and Community Services Committee
Nine month to inquire and report ...
Mr STEVENS (Mermaid Beach—LNP) (Manager of Government Business) moved

1. That the Health and Community Services Committee inquire into and report on the current regulation of outdoor advertising in Queensland and whether reform, including legislative reform, is needed to protect children from being exposed to sexually explicit and inappropriate outdoor advertising.
2. That in undertaking this inquiry, the Committee is to consider:
(a) the sexualisation of children and other adverse impacts on children through sexually explicit outdoor advertising;
(b) the range of outdoor advertising, including roadside billboards, shopfront windows, on public shelters and public transport, and the existing regulation of such advertising spaces;
(c) the adequacy of the existing regulation of outdoor advertising in Queensland, focusing on the effectiveness of the regulatory model to limit children’s exposure to sexually explicit images and slogans;
(d) the regulatory framework for other forms of media including publications and television that limits children’s exposure to sexually explicit and inappropriate advertising and whether such framework could be applied to outdoor advertising;
(e) previous parliamentary and expert reports on the regulation of outdoor advertising; and
(f) any recommendations for reform for the regulation of outdoor advertising in Queensland.
3. Further, that the committee take public submissions and consult with relevant local, Queensland and Commonwealth government agencies, business and industry groups and other key stakeholders.
4. Further, that the committee is to report to the Legislative Assembly by 31 January 2014.

Mr PITT (Mulgrave—ALP) (2.28 pm): 
I am not rising to oppose this motion, but I wish to point out that outdoor signage is regulated in a national framework. 
This referral is something that would better sit with the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee. 
We do not believe that the Health and Community Services Committee is the place for it. 
We certainly welcome broad-ranging community consultation as part of this process. 
I think the same outcome would have been achieved if the matter had been referred to the legal affairs committee and other committees were offered opportunities to provide input into the inquiry. 
But we will not be opposing the motion.
Question put—That the motion be agreed to.
Motion agreed to.

Queensland Parliament - hansard 17 April 2013