Health

Michael Kirby, Bob Carr, John Brogden and Dr Ingrid van Beek will headline the upcoming Harm Minimisation Summit, being hosted at NSW Parliament by the NSW Cross-Party Harm Minimisation Roundtable. 

Four parliamentarians from across the political spectrum have joined forces in the NSW Parliament to renew the debate about harm minimisation approaches to illicit drug use. 

15 years saving lives. 15 years providing front-line services at the vanguard of medical practice. 15 years transforming the debate about illicit drug use.

While we need to balance the interests of all those involved in ART-assisted conception, the right for donor-conceived individuals to access information about the identity of their donor cannot be ignored and we must always put the interests of children first.

This week, I went to Canberra to participate in the National Drug Summit. Here's 9 things I learned:

The drug policies in NSW aren't working, so we need a new summit to look at harm minimisation strategies that could include amnesty bins, pill-testing and the end of the use of sniffer dogs

Let’s make good evidence based public policy and once again make NSW a world leader when it comes to harm minimisation.

The Sydney Morning Herald, July 22, 2015

It is an old car yard that has been approved to be turned into a hospital – but is destined to become a pollution stack.

The Sydney Morning Herald, August 23, 2015

Families and schools close to a planned WestConnex exhaust stack believe pollution from the tunnel will exacerbate the already high prevalence of chronic circulatory and respiratory conditions in the area.

Together, we can truly make asbestos a thing of the past.