FFDLR Newsletter May 2020
Articles in this issue include: Emergency action in response to Covid-19 Fair Treatment campaign – Watch “Half a Million Steps” online Global Commission of Drug…
EMERGENCY ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
COVID-19 demands action and provides the opportunity to get the most disadvantaged and needy out of prisons. FFDLR CALLS FOR 1.The establishment of clinics in...
Enforcement of Drug laws – Refocusing on organised crime elites
In this first report of the decade, the Global Commission on Drug Policy outlines how the current international drug control regime works for the benefit...
Coronavirus threat highlights the need for prison reform
Letter published in the Canberra Times on 26 March 2020 The corona virus emergency underlines the public health threat of the crowded ACT prison overflowing...
UNSW academics say government response to Ice inquiry ‘disappointing’
Read the full story here by DIANE NAZAROFF AND EMI BERRY The NSW government has already ruled out five recommendations from the Ice inquiry, including...
How Many More Experts Must Recommend Pill Testing Before The Government Makes It Happen?
Read the full story here by Shelley Smith The government has finally released the findings from the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’....
Pressure for permanent pill-testing service in Canberra after successful festival trials
Read the full story here By Tom Lowrey A shopfront, a discrete corner of a pharmacy, a pop-up site or the back of a van —...
Uniting Fair Treatment Campaign
FAIR TREATMENT (www.fairtreatment.org) Our organisation is a partner in Fair Treatment – seeking an Australia where no-one dies from drug overdose, and everyone can get appropriate help...
Drug Policy Public Discussion Forum, Is it time to legalise drugs?
Wesley Conference Centre, Pitt St SydneyApril 23, 2020 at 7pm to 9:15pm Register here Join ABC Media Watch host, Paul Barry for an all-star, panel...
NSW Recorded Crime Statistics quarterly update December 2019
This report presents 24 months of reception, discharge and custody population data and comparisons between the current and previous quarter for age, gender, indigenous status,...