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Criminal Law

By Kate Gunther

03.02.17

Treating drug users as the enemy: The difficulty with waging the “war on drugs”

You may have heard three people recently died and many were hospitalised in a critical condition due to a “bad batch” of MDMA in Melbourne (see: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-16/three-people-die-from-drug-overdoses-in-melbourne/8185134). Consequently our government remains as committed…

Criminal Law . News & Current Affairs

By Kate Gunther

17.03.16

Is prison the only way? Rehabilitating Canberra’s offenders.

Ben Aulich & Associates’ Kate Gunther considers a new approach to punishment in the ACT: Given recent reports of overflow in the Alexander Maconochie Centre, Canberra’s only prison, it is timely to question…