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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 3 Hansard (25 March) . . Page.. 868 ..

MR STEFANIAK (continuing):

effective drug education is a shared one, and the drug education policy framework has taken this joint responsibility into account by involving students, parents/carers, community and government in its development.

Mr Speaker, this draft drug education policy framework provides clear support and direction to schools in meeting the important role and responsibility they have in educating young people on this critical contemporary issue. The framework, together with the national and revised ACT drug strategies, will support effective drug education. It will play an important role in the collaborative community effort to halt the increasing harm done by, or in association with, drugs in our society.

I would like to take this opportunity, before I conclude, to thank all members of the working party for their valuable contribution to the design of this draft framework. I commend this draft drug education policy framework to the Assembly and I look forward to members' comments, along with those that will be received from the wider community throughout the consultation period.

Mr Speaker, I present the following papers:

Draft drug education policy framework in ACT government schools.

Draft drug education policy framework in ACT government schools - ministerial statement, 25 March 1999.

I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the papers.

Debate (on motion by Mr Hird ) adjourned.

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, earlier, in my absence, you invited me to withdraw a statement I made in connection with the Chief Minister recently. In view of her gracious withdrawal of the allegation that she made against me, I unreservedly withdraw my allegation that she had committed a terminological inexactitude.

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