How reducing drug harm beats law enforcement
Written by Bill Bush Published in City News of October 12-18, 2023. How reducing drug harm beats law enforcement The reaction to Opposition Leader Peter...
Category: Published LTE
Letter to the Editor – AMC is nothing to be proud of
The following letter, written by Bill Bush, FFDLR President was published in the Canberra Times on Saturday 3 May 2021 When in 1999 John Hargreaves...
A welcome step in fixing failed drug laws
Letter writer MARION McCONNELL says Michael Pettersson’s Bill to decriminalise small amounts of drugs for personal use is a very welcome small step in the right direction....
Drug chat a good start
The Canberra Times, Jan 2 2021 It gives many of us real hope that a wave of open mindedness is moving the ACT towards drug...
Seeds of Change
Recent claims the climate policies of the Greens in the assembly will have no effect on the scheme of things is ill-conceived. Margaret Mead reportedly...
Try Something New
Re “The ACT should lead the way on reforms to the justice system” (September 23, p35). This caught my attention not for what it said,...
Decriminalise Drugs
The release of wastewater data revealing an overall increase in drug use shows the government’s illicit drug policies, based on law enforcement and dedicated to...
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...
Letter to the Editor
www.canberratimes.com.au No guarantees There cannot be an absolute guarantee that pill testing would have saved the life of the 24 year old who died at...
Letter to the Editor – Pill testing works
Letter to the editor of the Canberra Times was published in today’s paper – 6/9/2019. It was significantly edited but the original is copied here....