Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

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.