Page 539 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 20 February 1991
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HIV, ILLEGAL DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION - SELECT COMMITTEE
Interim Report
MR MOORE (4.21), by leave: I move:
That the Assembly authorises the Select Committee on HIV, Illegal Drugs and Prostitution to present an interim report on prostitution in the ACT.
As members will be aware, the select committee was established without a reporting date and with the idea that the committee would have some role in assessing community opinion and a role, in terms of consultation with the community, in developing an understanding of the very complicated and sensitive issues around illegal drugs and prostitution. The committee itself determined - the evidence will be presented - that there appears to be a very small relationship between HIV and prostitution. It therefore separated prostitution from the issue of HIV and illegal drugs and seeks to present an interim report. We would be seeking to present that report on 21 March. I would like to say to members of the Assembly that we intend to bring down the final report in the last sitting week in June, which will be quite early in June. The full report will be put down at that stage.
The committee appreciates the unusual procedure of a select committee not having a reporting date. It believes that it has been particularly useful in raising public awareness and in giving us the opportunity to talk to people and to prepare the report in the best possible way. We hope that the Assembly will approve the interim report on prostitution.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Youth Camp
MR MOORE (4.24): Mr Speaker, for a minute I thought we were not going to get the opportunity to speak in the adjournment debate. Today I would like to relate to members of the Assembly an experience that I had on the weekend. During the weekend I was invited by Youth Insearch Foundation Australia Inc. to attend one of their camps at Mittagong. I accepted that invitation, Mr Speaker, and spent a number of hours watching, listening and participating in the work of those people with youth
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