Preamble: In 2018 Increasing public awareness of the limitations of existing approaches to alcohol and drugs policy prompted a wholesale re-examination of all laws and regulations relating to drug law by the Victorian Parliament. The Inquiry into Drug Law Reform conducted by the Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee of the Victorian Parliament lastContinue reading “A New Governance Structure for Drugs and Alcohol Policy in Victoria.”
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Repeal of Public Drunkenness Laws
Preamble: Victoria is one of only two states within Australia that has failed to repeal archaic public drunkenness laws. The repeal of public drunkenness laws represented a key recommendation of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody undertaken by the Hawke Labor Government between 1987 and 1991[1]. With the practical operation of theseContinue reading “Repeal of Public Drunkenness Laws”
Pill Testing Policy
A best practice model for Victorian’s ‘’If we continue to do what we have been doing for the past 20 or 30 years in relation to drug policy, we will continue to get the issues that we face at festivals and other places every weekend and day in day out in Australia of kids puttingContinue reading “Pill Testing Policy”