Page 444 - Week 02 - Thursday, 22 February 1990
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alcohol, other than at outlets where it is sold, banned also in the ACT. At the Bruce Stadium, for example, there would be no advertising for beer other than perhaps where there is a canteen.
One of our recommendations is that container deposit legislation be introduced for glass stubbies, as it may be for other matters which no doubt the committee looking into recycling will have in its recommendations. One of the problems we identified was that the glass stubbies left around after some of the events are quite a hazard and take a great deal of collection and should be actively discouraged. The most effective way to do that is to require, as happens in South Australia, that there be a deposit on that container.
These are some of the matters we have considered in relation to the problem of abuse of alcohol, and I am careful to say "abuse" of alcohol. I am also aware that alcohol causes many more significant problems than we have considered in this report. The problems of alcohol and its abuse in respect to health and road safety and particularly domestic violence are much more significant than the ones we have identified in this report.
A number of other problems which are somewhat associated emerged as we considered this report. We made no recommendations about them, but they came to us in sufficient number for us to make some comment. In particular, matters of homelessness emerged, both of young and older people, and problems with people with psychiatric disorders, who seem to roam our streets when perhaps they would be better off elsewhere. We will perhaps look at those matters in the future. That will be a case for a further report of this committee. I believe this report will be of benefit to the parliament and the Government as we consider appropriate responses, and I believe it will be of benefit to the community.
MRS NOLAN (10.43): Mr Speaker, I, like Mr Wood, am very pleased to be tabling this report today. I would also like to state my thanks to Ann Scott and Christine Windsor for a job well done. To keyboard staff, Hansard, other members of the committee - in particular Bill Wood as chairman - congratulations on a job well done. To all those who put forward submissions, even though I do consider the number of submissions to be small, thank you for your contributions. I also believe it was difficult to compare public behaviour without bringing in a comparison with other cities. I would reiterate our definition of public behaviour:
The Committee understood its terms of reference to encompass forms of public behaviour by individuals or groups which cause annoyance or distress to other individuals or groups in public places.
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