Drug decriminalisation can’t be delayed any longer
by Bill Bush On December 2, a motion in the ACT Legislative Assembly made consideration of the passage of a bill to decriminalise possessing small...
Category: Opinion Piece
Talk at the Sixth International Family Drug Support Day
Wednesday 24 February, 2021 Parliament House – Canberra Marion McConnell Thank you Tony and Family Drug Support for inviting me to speak at this sixth...
Tougher laws won’t fix the problem with drugs
“All too often, society has failed to keep drugs from our kids and then turned around and punished the very people the law was intended...
I ran a police force and I’m not soft on drugs. This is why I am backing a pill testing trial
An opinion piece by retired AFP officer and lawyer who was the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. There is wide support for a pill...
How is Australia responding to the pharmaceutical opioid problem?
Dr Gabrielle Campbell, NHMRC Australian Public Health Early Career Fellow at NDARC, UNSW. In the last twenty years there have been substantial increases in the...
INjustice reinvestment
IIt is difficult to imagine a more confused and confusing set of measures than those being pursued by the ACT government. On the one hand...
Prohibition Causes the Harm: An Interview With Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
An interview with Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform by Paul Gregoire, Sydney-based journalist and writer, writing for Sydney Criminal Lawyers https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/prohibition-causes-the-harm-an-interview-with-families-and-friends-for-drug-law-reform/
Moore / Needles still hard for Labor
“It is entirely inappropriate that the prison officers should be the ones making decisions about the spread of disease,” writes MICHAEL MOORE in City News...
JOHN MENADUE Drug reform series
From Monday 6 August Pearls and Irritations will be posting fifteen articles on the need for drug reform. Alex Wodak, President of the Australian Drug...
Starving welfare recipients off drugs
You have to admit that having a go at drug users is enticing politics. What pushback could there be against introducing drug testing of welfare...