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child and youth protection professionals and their community partners are often working with families that have experienced significant intergenerational trauma.
We will continue to work with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to take forward these important recommendations and will remain accountable to the community. Each of the actions listed under these recommendations contributes to a systemic reform of the child protection system in the ACT. The government will continue to work with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to establish an ongoing reporting framework that captures the extent of these systemic changes and monitors our progress towards that intent.
Yesterday I was pleased to meet with the implementation oversight committee, established in line with recommendation 15, to discuss this matter among other matters. I thank the committee members for their time and their ongoing commitment to the community.
I sincerely thank the steering committee that oversaw the two-year Our Booris, Our Way review. This was not easy or comfortable work. It was, at times, a confronting, upsetting and frustrating process. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities love their children and have suffered so much pain as a result of past policies and practices. Seeing lost or missed opportunities is incredibly tough.
This work was not done in vain. Our Booris, Our Way has already delivered change, and I have no doubt that the implementation committee will hold the incoming government to account to continue this important work.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Homelessness—housing
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Urban Renewal) (3.21): Pursuant to standing order 211, I move:
That the Assembly take note of the following paper:
Supportive housing—Response to the resolution of the Assembly of 24 October 2019.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (3.21): Unfortunately, the government’s response has not yet been circulated; so it is very hard to actually make a substantive comment on it.
Mrs Dunne: Do you want me to adjourn the debate?
MS LE COUTEUR: I think that Mrs Dunne will make a very good suggestion in a minute. All I would say, in the minute before that, is that I know that other jurisdictions have done similar work and looked at basically the cost to the state of
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