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Government policy on alcohol and other drugs should be consistent and treat alcohol and drug over-use as a disease (and not as an offence punishable by criminal law).
In the Lucky Country...
Article posted on Monday 07 November 2011Sometimes life in the raw rolls up to your feet, sits down and listens. Australia is a Lucky Country...but not for everyone, all the time. Keith McEwan reflects on people enjoying the liberty of free music in the sunshine...and of freedom dying before an ASIO assessment.
NT Government agencies fail to protect
vulnerable children: Ombudsman report
Article posted on Wednesday 10 August 2011
A withering Ombudsman's report tabled in the NT Parliament is scathing about the recent failures of the Child Protection Agency and its master department to protect the Territory's vulnerable children. The report calls into question whether the NT public service is capable of managing its own child safeguards, or of competently delivering federal intervention programs. On the evidence of the report, the human rights of little children are much less than sacred in one-eighth of Australia.
Sign here: booze-ridden, porn-rampant
Article posted on Monday 25 July 2011
'Twenty years on, not enough has changed,' says Eddie Cubillo,delivering the Elliott Johnston tribute lecture for 2011 in Adelaide. An Aboriginal man and the NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Cubillo describes the impact on his son as they return to a home that a disrespectful Federal Government has formally signposted as booze-ridden and porn-rampant.
PM's plea in line with UN Charter
Article posted on Monday 20 June 2011Editor, West Australian: The Prime Minister is obliged to support a Presidential clemency for Andrew Chan, an Australian citizen, in Indonesia. In doing so, she is supporting the UN Human Rights Charter which advocates all nations abolish capital punishment, which Australia has done.
Should drugs be legalised?
Article posted on Friday 20 May 2011A recent public debate pitted pro-legalisers against 'war on drugs' supporters. Here Brian McConnell describes the contest and gives a rundown on how the pre- and post- polling indicated a strong switch in support in one direction.
Random drug tests are unjust
Article posted on Thursday 19 May 2011There is no impairment scale for drugs in the system, and no-one can tell you accurately how long after taking a drug to wait before it is safe to drive. Despite these raging uncertainties, police and governments are imposing random roadside drug tests that are more PR show than delivering justice.
Failure results from policies
Article posted on Friday 08 April 2011Throughout Australia, jails are riddled with drugs. In virtually all prisons, inmates emerge after their sentence more hardened, completely un-rehabilitated. The drugs and jail infrastructures are not the problems: it's the policies, Brian McConnell says.
Living will: your right to die
Article posted on Monday 03 January 2011The issue of right to die has hit the front of Australia's metropolitan daily newspapers this silly season, with the Canberra Times featuring a call by Professor Ken Hillman to respect people's wishes. Also featured is the story of CLA member, Adele Stevens.
Time to think again on drug laws
Article posted on Monday 20 September 2010
Ken Davidson, editor of Dissent magazine and also a leading columnist on The Age newspaper, has analysed in straight economic terms why the current approach to drugs is wrong. He supports a switch to low-cost, high-impact programs.
All NT patrols to carry stun guns
Article posted on Wednesday 01 September 2010
Every police patrol in the NT will carry at least one stun gun by Christmas, with 100 new weapons taking the NT Police total to 230. In 2009, Kwementyaye Rubuntja, 39, died from heart failure after being stunned twice in Alice Springs. The NT coroner found his death may have been linked to the stunning, the ABC reported.
Even in the capital city, Indigenous
Australians suffer disproportionately
Article posted on Saturday 14 August 2010
Despite adequate resources and general goodwill, 'significant improvement' continues to elude Indigenous Australians, even in the national capital, Aboriginal Justice leader Brendan Church writes. He provides a 10-point list of ways improvement is possible.
No proof roadside drug testing
drivers benefits the community
Article posted on Wednesday 30 June 2010
Around Australia, drug testing of drivers takes places with no proven benefit to society and great penalty to people's civil liberties. In WA, the accuracy of the tests is declining, research in SA shows (see CLArion newsletter July 2010). Here, Bill Bush outlines why the ACT should not introduce such an uncertain, inequitable form of driver testing.
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Indigenous stats
sound alarm bells
Article posted on Monday 08 March 2010
Victoria is one of the more enlightened states in looking after Indigenous people...but still the statistics are appalling, as this analysis by Keith McEwan points out. "Life is not so good for an Indigenous person living in Victoria...or, for that matter, anywhere in Australia."
Drugs: health carrots, not sticks
Article posted on Wednesday 24 February 2010Australian drug policies are not working: criminals are getting richer, prison populations are swelling and there are major national health problems, including deaths from overdoses in every State and Territory. Surely, CLA says, it is time for the new National Drug Strategy 2010-2015 to learn from other countries and try new health-based carrots, rather than police-based sticks.
And still the prison population rises...
Article posted on Friday 11 December 2009
You'd think, from all the posturing by Law & Order (LO) politicians through Australia, that crime was up, but it is down. But what's really up is the prison population, by 36% (or 7759) from 21,358 to 29,317 over the past 10 years. At nearly $100,000 per prisoner, it's costing taxpayers about $800 million a year extra because pollies want to make big fellas of themselves in newspaper headlines.
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