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Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (15:50): My question is to the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Can the minister advise why funding for the Treatment Intervention Program ceased and funding for the Aboriginal Connection Program reduced despite it being reported that both programs were effective and exceeding KPIs in the government's 2014 Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy Progress Report?

The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS (Taylor—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (15:51): I thank the member for Davenport for his question. The 2014 South Australian Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy Progress Report demonstrates the government's ongoing multi-agency approach to this area. Certainly, of the 60 different points that were done in the report, the vast majority have been implemented. Only one is marked as red and not being pursued at this point in time. One reason for that is because of the federal government changing the way in which it chose to progress funding in that area, and another one is in relation to a change of portfolios to the Attorney-General's budgeting area.

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