Page 4017 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
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Most importantly, we noted, and I reiterate, the urgent need in the local community for an Indigenous drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility delivering a clinical model of care. We welcome the proposed review of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm in 12 months but, again, unless the final outcome and intent are to deliver a fully functioning clinical care facility, the gap continues.
I can only continue to support the Indigenous community in their continued call for a clinical care facility that will meet the ongoing and urgent needs of their community. The need for such a facility has never been greater, as stated by senior members of that community such as the CEO of Winnunga and previous members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body.
The amended motion as presented does not address these issues. We understand the work that has to be done at the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm, but we wish to move on from this. The motion I presented is not about the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm; it is to detail the failure of the government to deliver on its original promise made 10 years ago.
I call on the government to accept responsibility for failing to keep to the original commitment made by Jon Stanhope in 2007 to deliver to the Indigenous community in the ACT a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility. I call on the government to detail how they would deliver on a clinical care facility that is not the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm, committing to construction and funding as a matter of urgency. This is a facility which has been requested and is much needed by the ACT Indigenous community.
This should be a facility that will provide an appropriate clinical—once again: clinical—model of care. And it should be a facility which is run by Indigenous organisations for the Indigenous peoples of the ACT.
Amendment agreed to.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
Municipal services
MS ORR (Yerrabi) (5.26) I seek leave to amend my notice of motion in the terms circulated.
Leave granted.
MS ORR: I move the amended motion relating to municipal services:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes that:
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