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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (5 November) . . Page.. 3596 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

This Bill, Mr Speaker, gives us an opportunity to demonstrate yet again that this legislature works far better than any other legislature in Australia and that the reforms of this legislature are continuing. They continue on an evolutionary basis, not a revolutionary basis, as some in our community would have us proceed, so that we will ensure appropriate accountability and the best outcomes for the people of this Territory consistent with the aim of this Assembly that we reiterate when we pray or reflect at the beginning of each sitting. Mr Speaker, I commend the Bill to the Assembly.

Debate (on motion by Mrs Carnell) adjourned.

DISCHARGE OF ORDERS OF THE DAY

Motion (by Ms Tucker, by leave) agreed to:

That orders of the day Nos 9, 10, 13 and 16, private members business, relating to the Birrigai Outdoor Education Centre, a National Museum on Yarramundi Reach, Commercial Vehicles Parking on Residential Leases and the Government Response to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Report No. 2 on the Prevention of Violence in Schools, respectively, be discharged from the notice paper.

DRUG STRATEGY

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (10.50): I move:

That the Legislative Assembly:

(1) notes with concern the new drug policy initiatives outlined by Prime Minister John Howard and, while welcoming the extra funds to address the problems associated with growing drug use in our community, believes that the focus of the policies is narrow and incomplete;

(2) notes that the extra funding for law enforcement does not adequately replace funding previously cut by the federal government;

(3) believes that the best approach is broad-based, encompassing a wide range of harm minimisation initiatives which will reach the maximum number of drug users and that in developing initiatives it is important to remember that there is a wide range of drugs in use and many people use more than one drug;

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