NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns would have faced a backlash from party members if he had not locked in a date for this election promise.
The NSW Labor government will hold its long-awaited drug summit over four days starting in October, 25 years after former premier Bob Carr did the same amid Sydney’s heroin epidemic.
As well as the summit, the government will fund 12 new alcohol and drug hubs across the state, run by not-for-profit organisations that will share $33.9 million over four years.Six new hubs will be opened in regional NSW in Shellharbour, Bega and Eden, Orange, Singleton, Armidale and Wagga Wagga. Others will be expanded in Nimbin, Queanbeyan, Kempsey, south-western Sydney and Ashfield.
Stopping short of decriminalising drugs, a “two strikes” policy for possession was implemented to help low-level drug offenders avoid courts for health intervention programs.This front page on January 31, 1999 was instrumental in leading to the Drug Summit later that year.
The NSW government will hold initial discussions with stakeholders to determine the terms of reference for its summit, but it intends to involve medical experts, police, people with lived and living experience, drug user organisations and families “to provide a range of perspectives and build consensus on the way NSW deals with drug use and harms”.
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