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Report of the Redfern Legal Centre Drug Law Reform Project
September 1996
6. Future drug law reform activities
Future -activities for the Redfern Drug Law Reform Project are -likely to include closer links to other committees and organisations working on drug law reform in New South Wales. These groups are growing in number and diversity and include in their members the parents, siblings and friends of people who have died from overdose, AIDS or other drug-related causes, doctors, lawyers, professors and emeritus professors of medicine and pharmacology, drug users, health care workers, clerks, needle exchange workers, historians and artists.
In turn, these NSW groups are working closely with groups in other States and with the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation to address issues of drug policy and related law reform in every jurisdiction in Australia. The documents contained in this report will be examined again next year to see whether further changes and refinements are needed. Another report of people's comments on the documents will also be released at some point in 1997.
Individuals and organisations are invited to endorse, abuse or otherwise comment on the documents and to send these comments to:
Drug Law Reform Project
Redfern Legal Centre
73 Pitt St Redfern 2016
New South Wales Australia
Fax: 61-2-9310-3586
Acknowledgments
The main author of this report was Steve Bolt, who served as project officer from mid-1994 until August 1996. Dave Burrows, was the main author of the Harm Reduction Model of Controlled Drug Availability, and assisted Steve in finalising this report and preparing it for publication. Timothy Moore assisted in writing the report and Harriet Grahame of Redfern Legal Centre carried out crucial work in facilitating many aspects of the Project. Members of the Redfern Legal Centre Management Committee assisted the Project in many ways from its initial funding to monitoring its activities, providing institutional support and attending Project committee meetings. Thanks also go to the many people who provided comments for this report, and to the many people who participated in the Project committee over the past two years.
Appendix 1
Comments were sought from the following organisations/individuals (asterisk means a response was received). Where individuals are identified, they spoke as individuals and not necessarily as representing their organisations:
Hepatitis C Council of NSW*
AIDS Council of NSW*
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations*
NSW Users and AIDS Association
Australian IV League*
HEMP Nimbin*
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre:
Dr Lisa Maher*
Professor Wayne Hall
Paul Dillon
Dr Shane Darke
Centre for Education and Information on Drugs and Alcohol:
Meriel Schultz*
We Help Ourselves
Garth Popple*
Odyssey House*
NSW Law Society
NSW Bar Association*
Lawyers Reform Association
Australian Medical Association*
Doctors Reform Society
Pharmacy Guild of Australia
NSW Police Service
Supt Frank Hansen
Chief Supt Mal Brammer
Lory Price*
Police Association of NSW
Greg Chilvers*
Justice Action
David Heilpern, solicitor
Don Weatherburn*
David McDonald*
Peter Homel
Dr Alex Wodak*
Dr Nick Crofts
Mike Lodge
Owen Westcott
Frank Quinlan
Corrections Health Service
Dr Peter B Paisle *
Australian Drug Foundation
Bill Stronach*
University of NSW School of Community Medicine
Professor Peter Baume*
University of NSW Graduate School of Management
Dr Robert Marks
Macquarie University, School of Drug Dependence Studies
John Howard*
Professor Bill Saunders
National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse
Dr Wendy Loxley*
Salvation Army
Major Brian Watters*
Ken Marslew*
Angela and Tony Wood*
United Nations Association*
South Sydney Community Aid
Cabramatta Community Centre
Aboriginal Medical Service
Youth Advocacy and Policy Association
Parents and Citizens Federation
Local Government Association
Catholic Church*
Uniting Church*
Anglican Church*
NSW Ambulance Service
NSW Ambulance Officers Association
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