The Queensland Nationals Central Council meeting in Maryborough yesterday voted unanimously to ask the Federal Parliament to urgently address the issue of adult-child sex in internet virtual worlds and access by children in Aboriginal communities to pornographic material.

Queensland Nationals Senator, Barnaby Joyce, a member of the Coalition's Classification Issues Group, chaired by Liberal MP Trish Draper, moved the urgency motion following revelations in last week's Four Corners report on evolving virtual worlds on the internet.

The Classification Issues Group is also increasingly concerned about Aboriginal children being damaged in their formative years by viewing illegal and legal pornographic material and the lack of policing of the law by State Labor Governments.

"The National Party is Australia's most democratic political party. To get something passed unanimously shows the depth of concern grass roots members have about the protection of children in Australian society from the evils being perpetrated by pornographers in the virtual and celluloid worlds," Senator Joyce said.

The issues of concern were tabled as follows:

(a) The accessibility to children of internet based pornographic material including adult-child virtual sex contained in internet virtual worlds such as Second Life or like internet environments and computer games;
(b) The adequacy or inadequacy of existing regulatory, or other measures, which protect children from such content;
(c) The need for an effective national regulatory approach to protecting children from evolving internet based pornography;
(d) The accessibility, to children in Aboriginal communities, of pornographic material, including illegal pornographic material and the lack of effective policing of this.