Senate debates Questions without Notice

Illicit Drugs


Stephen Conroy

Stephen Conroy Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

2:26 pm

The government remains strongly committed to protecting the public from the health and safety risks associated with drug use by balancing health responses with effective law enforcement. The response, as I have mentioned, of all Australian governments to illicit drugs is focused on implementing the National Drug Strategy 2010-2015, which, as I have also said, provides a framework for action on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, guided by the principle of harm minimisation and which has been recognised as a world-leading initiative to combine both health and law enforcement responses.

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