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NSW Police Sniffer Dogs Announcement
After years of lobbying by legal services, human rights groups and victims of questionable police conduct, NSW police have finally conceded that the use of drug dogs at music festivals and other major events has mostly targeted people who use drugs, not traffickers. When the Police Powers (Drug Detections Dogs)…
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The Pacific Drug & HIV Crisis
https://apple.news/A0IzBn91ZReqhvyrfsTk_4Q Recent media reports highlight the growing use of the South Pacific as a transit corridor within the transnational cocaine trade, particularly in relation to the Australian market. Most recently, developments in Fiji have again drawn attention to the impact of illicit drugs on local communities that are ill-prepared and…
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$77 billion shortfall in government revenue from cigarette excise
It’s often forgotten where Australia started to go wrong in its response to cigarettes and vaping: Australia ignored the fact that its official national policy since 1985 has been ‘harm minimisation’. This term was defined in the 1990s as supply reduction plus demand reduction plus harm reduction. Australia’s commitment to harm…