Australia

Australian Police harasses Minorities

Australia has seen huge immigration flows in the last century.

Many new communities have faced discrimination from the State especially by from the Police.  Attempts at legitimising this discrimination have often rested upon the struggle against drug trafficking, but it is not only minorities who are involved in this trade.

    Mexican cartels expand to Australia

    According to Australian news sources, one of the largest Mexican drugs syndicates, the Sinaloa cartel has infiltrated Australia. The surge in cocaine use throughout Australia has been attributed to the large scale, highly-sophisticated importations by the Sinaloa cartel, headed by the infamous Joaquin “el chapo” Guzman.

      Cannabis use in Australian aboriginal communities soars

      A report released last week from Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission has highlighted a sharp increase in marijuana use amongst aboriginal communities in the Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands. According to the report up to 60% of people in these communities may be regularly using cannabis. This is having a real negative affect on already socially deprived communities especially because of high prices.

        The conventionalisms of drugs, sex, love and alcohol

        It is funny how two unconnected pieces of research can relate to the same topic mixing youth, drugs, mental illness, emasculation and risk taking. Both studies are of course full of conventionalisms and made the reader think that nothing new has been brought to the eternal debate between the good or bad effects of drug taking or the eternal role that the hypersexualised attractive woman plays upon the innocent man who cannot resists her charms.

          Proposed law allows forced detention and detox of Australian drug addicts and alcoholics

          Proposed state laws in Victoria, Australia will allow authorities to forcibly detain users of drugs and alcohol for a period of two weeks while they take part in a detox program. However human rights groups say that the new legislation could be used to keep binge drinkers and undesirable characters off the street.

            People in the walls

             I am a 25-year-old Australian. I have used meth since 19. Only ever shot it up, no normal pattern of snort, smoke then shoot, but from my experiences here in Melbourne, shooting up is the only way to use.

              A Native American woman tells us about her recovery from alcoholism

              TO WALK THE RED ROAD

                An Aboriginal with problems related alcohol is trying to rebuild his original lifestyle

                Hello, my name is Harold and I am an alcoholic, I am also an Aboriginal alcoholic. There was a time when a lot of people thought all Aboriginal people were alcoholics, and some of us believed that too. But since I've got into AA and this new way of life, the way of life that I believe all people are meant to be living, I now know the difference.

                  An aboriginal talks about his problems with alcohol

                  DENGKARNIN DA MUNTAK: Thinking of the Old Days
                  Presented by Betty and George

                  TITLE: DENGKARNIN DA MUNTAK:
                  Traditional Language belonging to the Murrinpatha Clan
                  Meaning "Think of the Old Days"

                  ABSTRACT PAPER:
                  National Drug and Alcohol Conference in Darwin
                  Tuesday 15th June, Wednesday 16th June, Thursday 17th June, 1999
                  Story told by: George Written by: Betty
                  Hi Everyone, my name is George
                  My Clan is Wakal Bengkungh.
                  My Country is Kubuyirry.
                  My Language is Murringnarr, but I am living at Port Keats.

                    A new hallucinogenic drug that has powerful effects

                    Police in South Australia have expressed concern over a new hallucinogenic drug. The media have been referring to it as “Super-LSD” and according to them the effects last “three times longer” than LSD.

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