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administrative arrangements what appears to be a small matter can easily be overlooked. When attention is drawn to such a situation, that is exactly the sort of response that should be made.
The Milk Authority gave a very different response, one that seeks to justify and qualify what they are doing. Where there is a justification, that is quite appropriate. But, clearly, where the administrative arrangements are entirely inappropriate, that is something that should be looked to and dealt with immediately. That is the sort of response that I look to. Rather than using an Auditor's report or a Public Accounts Committee report as the basis for a witch-hunt, what we are trying to do is ensure that the administrative functions of the ACT public servants are carried out in the leanest possible way, with the least cost to the community and in a fair and equitable way.
As far as I am concerned, the Auditor's report provides the opportunity, and the Public Accounts Committee provides the follow-up to that Auditor's report.
Debate (on motion by Ms Follett) adjourned.
HIV, ILLEGAL DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION - SELECT COMMITTEE
Second Interim Report - Feasibility Study on the Controlled Availability of Opioids
MR MOORE (4.21): Mr Speaker, I present the interim report on a feasibility study on the controlled availability of opioids, together with extracts of the minutes of proceedings and a copy of the submission lodged by the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. I move:
That the report be noted.
Our committee has not dealt with the major hard drug problem in Australia and our committee has not dealt with the death drug, and that is because we were not charged to. The major hard drug problem in Australia is alcohol. The death drug in Australia is cigarettes.
The responsibility of our committee is set out in the beginning of the report, and it is to inquire into "(a) the effectiveness of current legal and social controls enabling action to prevent the spread of HIV; (b) the effectiveness of current legal controls on prostitution and drug-taking;" and then there is point (c), which I think is most important. (Quorum formed) Point (c) of the resolution of appointment of this select committee is most critical. We were charged with finding "alternative social, medical or legal proposals which may assist in restricting the further spread of HIV". In looking at the gamut of the job that we
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