Drug Inquiry Final Report
Mar 27, 2018
You can read the report in full...
RN with Linda Mottram – Drug Report
Mar 27, 2018
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Report on ABC Radio National, aired on PM program on Tuesday 27th of March at 6:30 PM, featuring Fiona Patten.
The issue of personal drug use has long challenged...
Victoria needs to re-assess its drug driving laws to measure impairment, not just the presence of drugs, a report into drug law reform recommends.
Victoria needs to re-assess its drug driving laws to measure impairment, and not just the presence of drugs, a report recommends.
Parliament's...
Call for pill testing at festivals to help emergency services treat overdose victims – ABC News
Mar 27, 2018
Pill testing should be introduced at music festivals to help emergency workers treat patients suffering adverse reactions like overdoses, according to an inquiry into Victorian drug law reform.
A state parliamentary committee investigating laws and regulation of illicit drugs released the...
Fiona Patten MLC has tabled the Law Reform, Road Safety Committee Report on Drug Law Reform in the Legislative Council, that she initiated in November 2015.
The comprehensive 680 page report with 50 recommendations received extensive evidence and research from a wide range of experts and peak...
Sniffer dog, drug-driving reforms proposed in Victoria’s long-awaited drug report – Herald Sun
Mar 25, 2018
THE use of sniffer dogs at music festivals should be probed and drug-driving laws expanded to include more substances, according to an explosive parliamentary report.
The unprecedented measures are expected to be among more than 50 recommendations to be handed down by the joint house...
Today, Australians consume more than 1.4 billion Weet-bix each year.
As a Weet-bix kid myself, I had no idea, nor did my parents have any idea, that the money we spent on our family breakfast was being sent overseas, tax-free, to support a religious institution.
I doubt Aussie families today...
Staff at Victoria’s two youth justice centres have used lockdowns and isolation to control juvenile detainees many thousands of times in the past two years, often due to staff shortages and in contravention of human rights laws, a damning report has found.
The practice of locking down and...
What the hell is it with politicians when it comes to sex and drugs? – The Canberra Times
Mar 3, 2018
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's recent inevitably dubbed ''bonk ban'' is an upstanding contender for the decade's dumbest policy.
This is not at all to say ministers should have impunity to have sex with staff members; there is clearly potential for carnal abuse of power and the Prime Minister...
By Nino Bucci and Benjamin Preiss
Updated 20 February 2017 — 8:15pm first published at 3:12pm
A coroner has recommended the Victorian government trial a supervised injecting room in north Richmond, amid an unprecedented spate of heroin overdoses.
Coroner Jacqui Hawkins...