Page 4220 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 21 September 2011

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Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the negative.

Motion negatived.

Alexander Maconochie Centre—drugs

MR HANSON (Molonglo) (4.38): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) on the 25th July 2011, an incident of self-harm by an Aboriginal detainee occurred. The Aboriginal Liaison Officer (ALO) was only informally told of this incident a day later;

(b) in a separate incident, leading up to the 29th July 2011, a detainee at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) located in the Crisis Support Unit was able to stockpile methadone medication;

(c) on the 29th July 2011, another detainee at the AMC located in the Crisis Support Unit was unknowingly given the stockpiled methadone;

(d) the detainee who was stockpiling the methadone subsequently informed correctional staff that they had been stockpiling the medication in order to overdose; and

(e) that the detainees involved are of Aboriginal descent and the ILO and ALO were not informed of the incident immediately; and

(2) calls on the ACT Government by the first sitting day in December 2011 to:

(a) undertake an investigation into the procedures and practice surrounding the administration of medication, including methadone at the AMC;

(b) review the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and the application of the recommendations to all correctional facilities in the ACT, ensuring that this application reflects current best practice; and

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