ACT Drug Strategy Action Plan
The ACT Drug Strategy Action Plan 2018-2021 (released on 11/12/2018) outlines ACT Government priorities to address and minimise harms from alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs and…
REGULATION – THE RESPONSIBLE CONTROL OF DRUGS
The Global Commission on Drug Policy The purpose of The Global Commission on Drug Policy is to bring to the international level an informed, science-based...
What is a church doing running a facility where illegal drugs can be used openly? And why?
This podcast by Amanda Tattersall from ChangeMakers gives an excellent history of the involvement in drug policy over many years of the Uniting Church. Many...
Is Gladys Berejiklian more daring than she dares have us believe? – Bill Bush
In the October newsletter I had a go at the New South Wales Premier’s summary dismissal of pill testing following the death of two young...
Get behind fair treatment – Bill Bush
Our remembrance ceremony just past is the most moving, most important, most profound event of our year. It sums up what Families and Friends is...
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/
FFDLR Newsletter November 2018
Articles in this issue include Get behind fair treatment – fair go not criminalisation – Bill Bush Launch of Australia21 report – We all pay...
End of the Long Walk for Treatment
The final steps of the long walk for treatment from Dubbo to Parliament House in Sydney were taken on 2nd November, 2018 when the baton...
Chaplain Caitlin Kensey Scott’s address at Remembrance Ceremony
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...
Ann Finlay’s Reflections at Remembrance Ceremony
We were a fairly ordinary family who had many difficult experiences but no major trials or tribulations, until Paul’s mental health deteriorated and his descent...