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On 2 May 2024, the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties will host a discussion panel about the need for drug reform in the state. The last reform in the state was done in 1999, and experts say New South Wales needs to shift away from treating drugs from a criminal perspective to a …
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has called on the NSW Electoral Matters Committee to remove the restrictions on incarcerated people’s ability to vote. Under the current NSW electoral act, an individual who’s been convicted of an offense and is serving a sentence of 12 months or more, is unable to vote. This disproportionally affects …
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Australia is in the midst of a whooping cough outbreak, with more than 2700 cases recorded in the first 3 months of this year, most of them in Queensland and New South Wales. Whooping cough is highly contagious, and although adults can contract the illness, children and babies are the most vulnerable. Image: Image: Unsplash …
New research supports the push for reformed drug-driving laws following the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in 2016. Under New South Wales law, both the presence of THC and driving under the influence are offences and result in a loss of license. For individuals who rely on medicinal cannabis for chronic pain and other conditions, it …
Australia’s first Peoples Commission into the housing crisis will convene in the next month as affordability remains at crisis level. The inquiry will hear from people at the centre of the housing crisis including renters in severe housing stress, those with crippling mortgages, and struggling homelessness services. Image: Image by Shutterstock Produced By: Remy Naughton …
This year’s World Pro-Adaptive Surfing Titles have kicked off in Byron Bay. The four-day international competition comes ahead of the Olympic committee’s decision on whether to include the sport in the 2028 Los Angeles games. But what exactly, is pro-adaptive surfing? Image: Image Credit: Produced By: Mia Armitage Featured In Story: Mark Mono Stewart – …
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North East New South Wales forest protectors have stopped logging operations in Styx River State Forest, north east of Armidale, to protect endangered greater gliders and their habitat. The greater gliders have been filmed entering their dens with a total of at least NINE gliders recorded, thanks to citizen scientists. Image: Image: Flickr/ David Cook …
Prison officers from the Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney have started a strike today to demand better wages and better safety conditions. The strike will last 48 hours, after the company MTC Australia just offered a wage increase of 2.5 per cent to the prison officers. Also prison officers are forced to work double shifts …
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