DRUGS THREAT TO FUTURE

IT'S a most unfortunate decision of the Bracks Government that Victoria is
to have safe injecting rooms. They will only entrench the problem.

Coming on top of the decision on condom vending machines in high schools, I
am apprehensive about what else is in the pipeline.

The Vatican recently ordered the Sisters of Mercy to desist from running
injecting rooms in Sydney because it involved facilitating drug taking.

I believe there is a need for a national approach which takes the problem
seriously and not deals with it on an ad hoc basis.

Parents have to be made accountable if their children are on drugs.

It is a very difficult problem which comes out of the general hedonistic
culture of our society. It is a culture that has to be changed if Australia
is to have a future.

Australia will lose its next real war if it allows its youth to be destroyed
by drugs and other moral evils.

Greg Byrne,
Rowville.