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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Two-thirds opposed to easing of drug laws

Policy on drugs endangers youthWhen you get to high school, you are taught that drugs are ''bad''. The teachers show you pictures and tell you the horror stories about drugs, but at that age, you can never really believe that something which looks like a sugar pill can wreak all more
Sydney Morning Herald ( 5/20/2012 6:57:00 AM -08:00 )

Policies sending 'mixed messages'
DRUG Free Australia may not be a household name but its leaders claim a role in repelling further moves towards what they see as the evil of drug decriminalisation. It fears the ''tough on drugs'' regime of the Howard government is unravelling, more
Sydney Morning Herald ( 5/20/2012 6:38:59 AM -08:00 )

Two-thirds opposed to easing of drug laws
AUSTRALIANS remain firmly against relaxing illicit drug laws despite declarations by a group of eminent Australians and a global commission that the war on drugs has failed. A Herald/Nielsen poll has found two-thirds of Australians oppose more
Sydney Morning Herald ( 5/20/2012 6:38:46 AM -08:00 )

Voters oppose relaxing drug laws despite failure of 'war'
A MAJORITY of voters oppose decriminalisation of drug use despite declarations by a group of eminent Australians and a global commission that the war on drugs has failed. An Age/Nielsen poll taken this month found two-thirds of Australians oppose more
The Age ( 5/20/2012 5:55:00 AM -08:00 )

Drugs: it's time to talk
Drugs: itThe war on drugs has raged for decades with organised crime the only winner. Catherine Armitage reports. Retired Salvation Army officer Brian Watters was startled to see Mick Palmer's name on the recent Australia21 think tank report which declared the more
Brisbane Times ( 5/18/2012 6:14:39 AM -08:00 )

Losing the war
Losing the warRETIRED Salvation Army major Brian Watters was startled to see Mick Palmer's name on the recent Australia21 think tank report that declared the war on drugs a failure and called for a national debate on ending prohibition. When Watters was made prime more
The Age ( 5/18/2012 6:03:31 AM -08:00 )

Cross-sex treatment on the rise

AN INCREASING number of Australian children are receiving treatment at a special clinic for gender identity disorder, including hormone treatments to make them feel more like the opposite sex. Since 2003, a publicly funded clinic at Melbourne's Royal more
Sydney Morning Herald ( 5/20/2012 6:30:18 AM -08:00 )

by: Marianne Betts, Erin Michael
DOZENS of Australian children have either begun - or are about to start - treatments to change their gender, new research reveals. The number of children being treated at the Royal Children's Hospital's gender identity disorder clinic, more
Herald Sun ( 5/20/2012 6:10:57 AM -08:00 )

Headaches led to discovery of tumour - in the other twin

Headaches led to discovery of tumour - in the other twinIDENTICAL twins Craig and Brenton Gurney, 38, were inseparable as children, shared a bedroom until they were 22, and have played in the same soccer team since they were five. They even ended up marrying women named Nicole. ''We've always been really, more
Sydney Morning Herald ( 5/20/2012 6:29:11 AM -08:00 )