Why are you right? Why are they wrong?

Well, look, we've made it pretty clear, and our position before the last election in 2024 was pretty clear, that we don't believe that there's any safe way to take illegal drugs, and that was our position that we took to the election in 2024.

It remained our position afterwards, and that's why we gave effect to it.

And, um, our view is, and, uh, we, uh, carried out an evaluation of a test that was done under the former Labor government up here.

Our view of it was that it was, uh, not significant in making any change to people's behavior.

In fact, uh, our evaluation found that the majority of participants said that the drug checking service had not changed their attitude toward take-- towards talking about their drug use with a healthcare provider.

Um, there was no significant number.

Mm-hmm.

Why are you right? Why are they wrong?

Well look we've made it pretty clear and our position before the last election in 2024 was pretty clear that we don't believe that there's any safe way to take illegal drugs and that was our position that we took to the election in 2024 it remained our position afterwards and that's why we gave effect to it and our view is and we carried out an evaluation of a test that was done under the former Labor government up here our view of it was that it was not significant in making any change to people's behaviour in fact Our evaluation found that the majority of participants said that the Drug Checking Service had not changed their attitude towards talking about their drug use with a healthcare provider.

There was no significant number.

We had more than 1,000 participants in the trial, but only 43 completed the follow-up survey.

So we're not persuaded that publicly funded drug checking is in any way a way that we can minimise harm and we believe it dilutes the message and that message is that there is no safe way to take these illegal drugs and we don't support either publicly or privately funded pill testing.

And so we moved an amendment in the House last year.

We're not alone in that position.

Are we getting anywhere on that?

What's the current situation? How long are some of these bed blocks lasting for some patients?

Yeah, look, just like other states and territories, Queensland will continue to grapple with high numbers.

Our most recent data shows that there are over 1,400 stranded Australians across the state.

So that's an increase on the last time I spoke to you, Sally, and that's about 1,000 older patients who should be in aged care facilities but unfortunately, because we're looking after them and making sure they're not abandoned, are in our hospitals.

We've got some instances, for example, in Townsville, uh, where we've got a, a patient who's been with us for 1,100 days.

At Cairns, um, someone requiring a, a residential aged care, uh, bed that can support behavioral and dementia needs been with us for over 1,000 days.

Charters Towers, a similar situation, 1,000 days.

W- why not Queensland?