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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (11 May) . . Page.. 1474 ..

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety): The idea of a Sunday budget sounds very attractive to me, and I would be happy if Mr Quinlan joined me to thrash it out. Mr Speaker, further to an earlier question, I present the following papers, including the package of information which is provided to victims of burglary by the Federal Police-

Mr Berry: There were 6,800 victims of burglary last year.

MR HUMPHRIES: After you people cut back on police numbers, what do you expect to happen? I present the following papers:

Property loss and/or damage-Copy of form letter to victims of property loss and/or damage from Commander Operations, ACT Policing, Australian Federal Police forwarding:

Crime-Stoppers Information Sheet;

Crime-Stoppers brochure;

Supplementary Property Form;

Neighbourhood Watch brochure entitled "The Why, What and Where of Neighbourhood Watch";

Community Liaison Advisory Safety Project (CLASP) brochure entitled "Council on the Ageing (ACT)" incorporating a Safety and Security Review application.

First Home Owners Grant Bill 2000-Scrutiny Report No. 6 of 2000-Copy of letter from Mr Gary Humphries MLA, Treasurer, to Mr Paul Osborne MLA, Chair, Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety, dated 10 May 2000.

SUBSIDIES LEGISLATION

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety): When I introduced the Subsidies (Liquor and Diesel) Repeal Bill 2000 this morning, I am told that I said that there would be an act of grace payment to pensioners of $3,000. The printed speech says $300. If I did say $3,000 I should correct the record and say it was $300. It still represents, though, the equivalent of 10 years' worth of subsidy per person on average.

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Drug Use Study

MR HUMPHRIES: Yesterday Mr Kaine asked me a question about the drugs study that was referred to in respect of the Epidemiology Act of 1992. I said that I would try to provide some information to Mr Kaine. Mr Kaine's question was:

... given that it has been confirmed that the participants in this bizarre study were using illegal drugs, were you, as chief law officer during the last five years aware of this illegal activity?

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