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Category: Opinion Piece

January 7, 2022 Decriminalisation Opinion Piece

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...

March 4, 2021 Events Opinion Piece Presentations and Forums

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...

February 4, 2021 Drug Policy Opinion Piece

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...

March 15, 2019 Drug Policy Harm Reduction Opinion Piece Pill Testing

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...

February 28, 2019 Australian Resources Opinion Piece Resources

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...

February 21, 2019 Drug Policy Opinion Piece Prisons

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...

November 18, 2018 Drug Policy Media Opinion Piece

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/

August 16, 2018 Opinion Piece

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...

August 4, 2018 Drug Policy Opinion Piece

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...

November 16, 2017 Drug Policy Opinion Piece

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...

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