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We consider that the issues and concerns raised by this inquiry can be addressed only through our overall commitment to families, children and young people in an integrated strategic plan for community development and social equity.
Finally, Mr Speaker, facing the future and getting it right beyond the Burdekin report will rely on the involvement and ongoing support of the whole community, including clubs, churches, business, industry and community agencies. We must all work together. I close with some perhaps unorthodox remarks. I wish to thank publicly those dedicated public servants and officials who have contributed to the preparation of what I believe to be this excellent response. I present the following papers:
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - Inquiry into homeless children and young people - Alliance Government Response -
Ministerial statement, 2 May 1990.
Report entitled Beyond the Burdekin Report, dated April 1990
and move:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Grassby) adjourned.
PUBLICATION OF THE NEW CITIZEN
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): I seek leave to make a short statement in relation to an assertion made in this house last Thursday by Mr Stevenson.
Leave granted.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I simply wish to correct the record on a matter. This is not a contentious issue between me and Mr Stevenson. Members will recall that he claimed that the journal, the New Citizen, a newspaper published by the Citizens Media Group in Queensland, had been legally deposited at the National Library from its first issue in February 1989 and carries the ISSN number 1034/7720. That is not the case. No such deposits of the New Citizen, published by the Citizens Media Group, are held at the National Library or in any other public library in Australia, as previously stated by me.
The ISSN number 1034/7720 relates to another publication. This publication, which is also produced by a group called the Citizens Media Group Pty Limited, is published in another part of Queensland and carries the title the Citizen. The declared registered office of the Citizen is 23 Cedar Drive, Saddletree Creek, Queensland. It is printed by the
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