Bob McMullan’s (MP) speech at the 8th Annual Remembrance Ceremony
...about comfort for family and friends who have lost loved ones to drugs even though dear friends and children of dear friends and parents of dear friends have been lost...
...about comfort for family and friends who have lost loved ones to drugs even though dear friends and children of dear friends and parents of dear friends have been lost...
How do we gather strength for the journey, when some of the ones we travelled with have fallen behind? It is in the returning again each year, or in one...
...sadly, is far from blameless, for it is often the very conservative Christian voice that responds loudest of all when support for an end to this approach is called for....
...the tension between the known principles of person centred care and punitive law enforcement especially as it relates to drugs and mental health. “This tension is lethal,” declared Bill Bush,...
...us as the young men and women who have lost their lives in warfare, or in other circumstances for which there is an official remembering. Marion, Bob and Brian have...
...accidental heroin overdose. He was 28 and had been just managing his addiction for many years. He had tried several times to rid himself of his dependence, but unfortunately was...
...heard has highlighted the many intersections between illicit drug addiction and mental ill health. Indeed the Australian Medical Association lists substance use disorder as a form of mental dysfunction. It...
...the tragedy of losing a child when a change in policy could save them. “The tragedy of losing a child to what could have been a preventable death makes me...
...country is getting a lot of practice in apologising for misguided, harmful policies: the forgotten children dragged from their indigenous parents, allegedly orphaned children dispatched from post-war Britain across the...
National General Secretary, Uniting Church in Australia at the 4th Annual Remembrance Ceremony in Canberra, Oct 1999 All of us here today have been deeply touched one way or another...