Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, Hobart City Council yesterday voted in support of pill testing at major events and festivals. We know pill testing saves lives, and health experts agree a harm minimisation approach is the only sensible response to illicit drug use, yet the Tasmanian government is clinging to an ideological opposition to harm minimisation, and pill testing in particular, and refuses to back the council's position. While some like the ACT government have taken a lead on this, governments like Tasmania's have shown they simply don't understand the issue. So will you as health minister put the issue of pill testing on the COAG Health Council agenda?

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