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Australian
Mayors:
Enforcement
"Will
Not
Work":
A
call
to
the
national
government
to
change
strategy
12/12/97
On December 4, Australia's Council of Capital City Lord Mayors announced
that they had united in commitment to a new national drug strategy, and
the formation of a new national advisory committee on the issue which would
report directly to them.
Sydney's Lord Mayor, Cr Frank Sartor, took serious issue with the national
Government's law enforcement approach. "It's quite obvious that the
political leadership in this country has let us down significantly. It's
quite obvious that the current strategies are not working, will not work,
and the capital cities need to work much harder."
The Adelaide Lord Mayor, Dr. Jane Lomax-Smith said that the lord mayors
were disappointed with the recent federal decision to cancel planned heroin
maintenance trials. Pat Assheton of DrugAid, a reform organization in Australia,
told The Week Online that it is likely that Jim Sorely, the Lord Mayor
of Brisbane, was the driving force behind this action. Mayor Sorely's office
said that they had no comment for release at this time.
Brian McConnell, President of Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform,
joined with the Lord Mayors in decrying the continued reliance on enforcement
by the Australian Federal Government: "Families and Friends for Drug
Law Reform welcomes the moves by Australia's Lord Mayors. Community political
leaders, like our Lord Mayors, are taking seriously the problems caused
by prohibition and illicit drugs and are taking action, while other more
senior political leaders continue to stick their heads in the sand."
For more about reform efforts in Australia, visit the web site of Family
and Friends for Drug Law Reform at http://www.wps.com.au/druglawreform/.
Families and Friends is made up of those who have lost loved ones to substance
abuse, and who are calling for a public health, rather than a punitive
approach to drug policy.
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Issue #22, 12/12/97
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