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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sexual Assault Conviction Quashed Due to Admission of Unfairly Prejudicial Evidence The appeal court overturned the conviction as the police body warn camera footage admitted...

A government-sanctioned pill testing trial happened at the two-day Yours and Owls music festival held in Wollongong last weekend. So, for the first time ever in the state of NSW, festivalgoers were able to have their illegal drugs tested for...

According to veteran NSW drug law reformist Dr Alex Wodak, it’s “an open secret that most of the NSW cabinet now support major drug law reform”. This suggests that the recent 2024 NSW Drug Summit was “designed to not recommend...

This week’s New South Wales Drug Summit gave many people hope that our state would finally move away from the failed war on drugs and embrace drug minimisation measures such as decriminalisation and pill testing. But drug law reform experts...

“Nothing worthwhile ever comes out of an echo chamber,” said NSW premier Chris Minns, as he opened two days of NSW Drug Summit proceedings on Gadigal land at Sydney’s ICC on 4 December 2024. “We want different perspectives. We want...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Being a Victim of Domestic Violence Can Amount to a Mitigating Factor on Sentence A woman who poisoned her husband to death after being subjected...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Human Trafficking Offences in Australia: More Common Than Some May Think A man has been sent to prison after taking his wife and children overseas,...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: A Prison Sentence Can Only to Be Imposed If No Other Penalty Is Inappropriate The appeal court emphasised that “a court must not sentence an...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Difference Between Cannabis Leaf and Plant for the Purpose of NSW Drug Offences “I am satisfied that the applicant could not in law have...

The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released a report on 23 October 2024 which found that the number of people charged with drug driving offences over the past decade has increased from 1,409 to 13,815 annually. But notably,...