Former premier, health groups urge Perrottet to implement ice inquiry recommendations | marywardy LucyCormack
Bob Carr has urged Premier Dominic Perrottet to act on the two-year-old ice inquiry, while the commissioner of the $10.8 million investigation says the absence of funding for drug reform was a shameful omission in last Tuesday’s budget.
Perrottet this week said a response would be delivered “very shortly”, but would not elaborate on a time frame. “Like the boy who cried wolf, the premier has for so long been saying that the government will ‘very soon’ respond to the inquiry’s recommendations.” “I don’t think there’s anything in the zeitgeist that should inhibit the premier from taking the public into his confidence and saying: these are the reforms that have been recommended, it’s in the spirit of harm-minimisation,” he said, adding the injecting centre had saved lives.
“We are extremely concerned the government’s long-overdue response will become a political football as part of the 2023 state election campaign,” he said.
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