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an enormous amount of evidence to back this up and they certainly did during their committee deliberations.
I mentioned the special events before; in particular the Australia Day celebration, the Canberra Festival's Food and Wine Frolic and the Street Car Nationals. I compared these to my visiting Ottawa a couple of years ago and attending the Canada Day celebrations on July 1. There were more people, there were cases of drunkenness and antisocial public behaviour, there was also litter the next day, but the one big difference was there was no broken glass. I am not suggesting that I did not see a glass bottle - I did, but I believe the glass container deposit legislation really did make a very real difference in terms of glass lying around and safety from broken glass. Therefore I thoroughly endorse the recommendation in terms of safety and control of drinking in the ACT.
The Government should introduce glass container deposit legislation in the ACT, and that was one of the recommendations in the report. As has already been stated, there were some 23 recommendations. Of course, there were some that I did not agree with, but there were many that I did agree with.
I would also like to mention that I do not for one minute suggest that such events, including the very popular events that I have already spoken about, do not make a significant contribution to the Canberra community. Of course they do and they contribute to the tourism industry. I, for one, support them wholeheartedly and want them to continue.
There are two recommendations that I would like to mention today and I shall refer to my comments in the back of this committee report. I would just like to read those comments, if I may:
While I do not consider it necessary to put forward a dissenting report in relation to this inquiry, I do wish to note certain areas that I consider are not consistent with my interpretation of evidence put before us or, in some cases, insufficient evidence.
I personally was concerned with the small number of submissions received -
As I have already said -
and consequently some views put forward. However, on the evidence before us, my deliberations support many of the recommendations of the report.
I do not, however, believe this Committee, on the evidence before us, should consider the recommendation of prohibiting alcohol advertising in all areas of the ACT except at the generic point of sale. It was argued that the problem of
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