 At a joint crime commission and the law enforcement agencies for a number of years, indeed there's been a 30% increase in the disruption of fan labs in one year alone. Almost 600 fantastic fan labs set up to manufacture illicit drugs have been disrupted by anywhere more successful than in Queensland. And I applaud the efforts of the Queensland Police and the Minister for Police here to disrupt these fan labs. As we know, the job is not done after the disruption of the labs and the apprehension of the perpetrators. We need to make sure these sites are indeed safe for future users, future tenants of these sites and for that reason we've, along with of course state governments, announced a national approach to the remediation of these sites in order to ensure we protect the community. What we know about fan labs is that 70% of the fan labs happen to be located in residential areas. The reason we have to be vigilant in ensuring that law enforcement agencies refer the matter when they can to local authorities in order to ensure that future occupants are not endangered by toxic material that is left after, as I say, a successful disruption of a fan lab. So for that reason I'm very happy to be here today. I'm very happy to be here with Neil, as Minister has overseen a very successful, a very high level of protection of these fan labs. Drug illicit drug manufacturing is one of the primary sources of income for serious and organised crime. We need to continue to dedicate our efforts to smash organised syndicates. It costs the community in this country up to $15 billion each and every year. But as we do that, as we fight crime, as in tackle serious and organised crime, we have to ensure the community is safe and that's why this national approach to remediating sites is so important. I'd like to first of all thank the federal government for indeed describing crime commission for working with the states and territories to develop these remitations guidelines. Drug labs involve very toxic chemicals, parts of the human, parts of the environment. So it's critically important that we have the appropriate guidelines to ensure that a cleanup after the events can remediate a property into a safe place. Queensland Police have been very proactive in targeting illegal drug labs throughout the state. We're dealing here with killer drugs. We've got a different drug lab shut down. The people behind that are safe trans. Over the last four months, we've heard Queensland Police have been very successful in shutting down the number of drug labs protected and shut down with about double the year before. The trend this year is slightly less, but still far too many. Queensland Police have been very proactive in working with other agencies in identifying and shutting them down. There's been significant public investigation. We rely very much as well upon the information project stopped and very successful in identifying potential people involved in drug labs. And that's the system whereby repeat purchases of state-of-the-art drug labs are reported immediately to police. There's also a very strong regulatory environment in terms of the materials used, like the precursor chemicals, the glass where the cheese, very strong and regulated, and police revised the updates which may lead to criminal activity. The Queensland public, and indeed the public across the country, can assist police greatly in protecting these drug labs. We encourage people to call 1-800-000-3000-000. Try and stop it if they have any suspicions about drug making activity in their neighbourhood. For example, homes with windows blacked out, suspicious activity during the day or during the night, and a regular visit by people who are strong as well. All of these things indicate us of a legal activity and we really encourage the community to call 1-800-000-1000-000000-000000. Thank you very much. I would just say, firstly, the reason why I would like to get to that is because we need a close operation of the work in effect is having a specified set of codes from the time the plan lab is detected by law enforcement agencies now that there's been some period of time where the site may have to be closed off with the skills or services of many evidence. But we need a proper process where any potential dangers that may arise beyond the sealing of that site is referred to local authority and indeed the occupancy, the landlord or the owner of the property to ensure that there's no future dangers for these drugs. I think we've been very successful in recent years as there's been a 50% increase in two years across the country in the plan labs. And our concern is that we need to ensure there is not a gap between law enforcement operations and regulatory bodies to ensure safety on site beyond the disruption. I don't believe that's been done as well as it could have been done. I believe being this step-by-step guide to how we proceed close to the disruption is critical. Yes, and how long is the toxicity level? Well, of course, it will depend on the circumstances and indeed that's why you need the experts to make decisions and it will depend upon the circumstances and it will depend upon the toxicity of the site and you can leave that to the experts with them. But there has to be a proper handover from law enforcement agencies to local authorities whether it's the local protection authority. It will have to be handled properly. We have to make sure that not only do we catch criminals but we protect the community. And I believe having a national approach, of course you know what that is, the partnership between federal and state governments is critical and that's the pierce date to announce this approach. So there they can be potentially fatal. These are very dangerous drugs. The precursors can injure people and indeed we would worry in particular if children were to wander onto the site after the disruption and come across chemicals that could potentially kill that child. Now, that's why it's critical that we manage this growth as well, that we ensure that law enforcement agencies do their job and they're doing a magnificent job on my lab in this regard in these disruptions. But we have to ensure that, that's the issue of the lab, we have proper sections placed and the end of the day there can be a spot. Well, ultimately following the case of the laboratory the Queensland Police Service will obviously declare the situation a crime scene once it's ready to be handed over to the owners of the property. The notice is provided to both of the local government authority and to the property owners. So that directs the process to the final. Ultimately, it is pointed to the responsibility of the property owner to be sure that it is remediated to a safe place. Obviously in their own interest it's a house note that if the property is to be rented it would be a private property or to another business. It's a property owner which has that process. How are you going to get off the bench? Well, it's a studio prayer that the property owner has no legal requirement which can be enforced at this age but obviously that's a matter of real need to monitor across the country. This is an important step today. We're releasing a national guideline on the creation of sites which are being subject of illegal drug labs. So the advice that's being provided to both owners of properties and household and business owners is to give them the advice they need so that they're properly remediated so they don't need to use a lot of your site. I think that's happening. Definitely. Well, there obviously have been different standards applied in different states for some time. This is a step out of national consistency to give property owners right across the country some consistency.