Thank you Mr Speaker. Last Monday I joined with my Assembly colleagues Mick Gentleman, Brendan Smyth and Dr Deb Foskey in attending the 11th Annual Remembrance Ceremony "for those who lose their lives to illicit drugs".

As part of the ceremony we listened as Bishop Pat Power read a list of over 170 names of Canberrans who have died as a result of illicit drug use. Most of those were between the age of 18 and 35 although even more tragically, a number were younger than that and some died in their middle years.