The Age Melbourne Australia

22nd
September, l997.   Page A4


The article is responsible for "sending me to the wire"  this morning?

"Sex exhibition hit by baby discrimination action.

Scene in joke

Couple with baby

Joke has man at expo at the sexpo entrance

Man states in bubble  "Sorry this show's about sex.  It's got nothing to do
with babies".

Baby   in bubble  ""My first conundrum".

CONTENT  OF ARTICLE
in compressed format

Yesterday an R-rated adults-only exhibition devoted to spicing up
Melburnians sex lives has attracted some unsolicited excitement in the form
of a legal complaint.

The man Mr David Ross went to his solicitor who advised them to "deafen the
couple with silence"

Ms Wolfe and Graeme Dickson (parents) have consulted their lawyer who gave
Ross a deadline which Ross failed to meet.  Asked what impact the show
could have on a baby Mr Ross declared the premises were restricted (to
adults) during Sexpo.  (more than 35,000 people have attended).
(population Victoria 2 1/2 million (approx)

Ross was then asked by Woolfe and Dickson what would happen if a 26 week
pregnant woman carrying a foetus tried to enter.  At this point Ross
terminated the conversation and asked the couple to go to the Equal
Opportunity Commission and they did!

The couples complaint was "on the basis of parental status being
discriminated in the provision of receipt of goods or services".

Content   which is four column wide by 12 centimetres long mentions  that:

the mother Ms Woolfe was breast-feeding Amanda so "is not able to be apart
from her child"

Beverley Walker
Melbourne Australia

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