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ped to move the debate about illicit drug policy along launched a volume of essays on trauma related stress in australia drawing out the diverse groups of people affected and the huge cost to individuals and australian society ptsd poses followed up with a large roundtable meeting of first responders police ambulance fire and emergency services and experts on the issue from defence to talk about better ways to respond to ptsd in our front line emergency responders we re writing up the report now run a multidisciplinary roundtable on the potential for algal farming to contribute to food and fuel security we had scientists business people government policy makers and a politician in the same room talking about what s possible and how we might make it happen the report is due for launch by senator janet rice in august run a forum on mindfulness empathy and compassion and launched the mindful futures network a venture that will provide a national space to map and develop the application of mindfulness empathy and compassion at a systems level particularly to improve the health and proficiency of australia s public and private organisations uk mp chris ruane who pioneered cross party and public service mindfulness training in britain helped launch the network at our webinar in may run a young australia21 group feeding their ideas into our projects through our young australia21 group and in collaboration with the australian lions drug awareness foundation finalised and are about to launch a conversation pack aimed at starting discussions with young people about drugs and drug policy started work on a project looking at young people and the future of work making our future work where we ll seek to add to the research base by talking directly to young people about how they feel about the future and work to provide insight for policy makers across a range of policy areas supported an adelaide primary school to pilot a drug awareness education program inspired by our 2014 smarter about drugs forum for young people and started discussions for a project called imagining equality canvassing possible solutions to growing inequality in australia following from our 2014 inequality roundtable and report we need funding to support and promote these projects and to run our very effective small office we have the equivalent of one half time staff member managing our office and operations raising funds supporting projects and managing volunteers salary and organisation overheads cost us around 70 000 a year and we ve identified we need to invest in expert communications help so our work is spread far and wide in the public arena our collaboration with a communications expert over the last six months has really paid off the launch of our illicit drug report is a great example with solid media coverage and comment lasting well beyond the day of the launch helping to move public debate along in this area for each project that communications expertise costs us around 13 000 we don t receive any large government or corporate funding we rely on project specific grants and support from our donors we need help to continue doing this work and this year we re running an unusual end of financial year donations drive a group of very generous supporters has pledged to multiply donations made to australia21 in the next two weeks the first 21 000 we raise from 16 30 june will be multiplied 5 times thanks to our generous matching donors every 1 donated will unlock 5 and if we reach our goal of 21 000 in the next two weeks we ll release 105 000 for australia21 to continue its work the drive is running for the last fortnight of june 16 30 june and all donations of 2 or more are tax deductible there are a few ways you can help us we would very much appreciate any donation you could make however big or small we d love to reach our 21 000 goal so we unlock the maximum of 105 000 every contribution will make a difference you can donate by going to our website www australia21 org au and clicking on the yellow donate button or you can go directly to our online donation site at www givenow com au australia21 donate directly to our bank account bsb 313 140 account no 2319 3882 or send a cheque to australia21 limited po box 3244 weston act 2611 i can send you these details we don t have a marketing budget for this drive so we re relying on networks and word of mouth i would be grateful if you would pass this message and the link to our short video https youtu be 8nrnhps3w0g on to your own networks and help us reach out to a broader community do you know any philanthropists that might be interested in our work would you be willing to talk to them and put us in contact we d appreciate any help you can give us thanks additional information australia21 board members work directly on projects running roundtables and forums forming discussion networks and project teams talking to politicians researchers policy experts and analysts business leaders young people and people experiencing first hand the issues we explore writing reports organising logistics working with the media running a roundtable costs about 61 000 and mobilises around 100 000 of pro bono work 127 000 would allow us to run the whole making our future work project including four workshops with young people a roundtable meeting and a report we d mobilise about 83 000 of pro bono work posted by paul barratt at 6 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels australia21 public policy wicked problems 25 march 2017 march in march 2017 armidale this afternoon i had the honour of addressing armidale s march in march community gathering on the subjects of asylum seekers and war powers my notes follow speech notes for armidale rural australians for refugees vigil central park armidale saturday 25 may 2017 foreign minister julie bishop is fond of extolling the virtues of a rules based international order she is particularly inclined to do that when other countries do things that don t suit us such as china building military installations on disputed reefs in the south china sea and claiming sovereignty over them she is right in principle of course we all have an interest in a rules based international order it s either that or the law of the jungle for a country such as australia the rules based international order suits us very well we are not powerful enough to get our way by force of arms or through economic power but we are important enough to be listened to when the rules are being made and we have a creditable track record in the development of international treaties and conventions that help to make the world a better and safer place the problem is in recent years our governments have become very selective about the rules they abide by the ones i want to talk about this afternoon are those which bear on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers and those which bear on how we go to war in our treatment of refugees and asylum seekers we routinely ignore the provisions of the refugee convention which we willingly and proudly helped to negotiate in 1951 i am sure you are all familiar with the many ways we flout the provisions of the convention describing and treating those who arrive by sea as illegal mandatory detention rather than a short period of detention to conduct health and identity checks interminable delays in processing asylum claims denial of access to the australian courts transfers to third countries with associated claims that the asylum seekers are not our responsibility failing to make adequate provision for the health safety and welfare of people in detention and more recently refoulement returning refugees to their countries of origin without due regard to the dangers they may face you may be less familiar with the disturbing behaviour our government has shown in relation to our obligations under the convention on the safety of life at sea solas as recounted in tony kevin s excellent 2012 book reluctant rescuers and i would argue that our placing turned back asylum seekers in a lifeboat under the control of someone with no seamanship or navigation qualifications is in violation of that convention in addition some of the turn back operations have seen australian military vessels violate indonesian territorial waters in violation of the u convention on the law of the sea and of course our interception of boats on the high seas is highly questionable in relation to that same convention in considering our approach to the refugee issue we must also consider the contribution we make through our military actions to the fracturing of societies and the displacement of people we go to war too readily and we go to war too easily under the australian constitution the power to deploy the australian defence force into international armed conflict rests with the governor general acting on the advice of the prime minister and the executive council there is no requirement for parliamentary involvement in the decision making process this means that the power is effectively in the hands of the prime minister as former prime minister malcolm fraser wrote strong willed prime ministers always get their way in cabinet in 2003 john howard took australia into an illegal invasion of iraq under the united nations convention there are only two grounds for military action against another state authorisation by the un security council or an immediate threat to the nation s territory neither of those conditions was satisfied in 2003 to make matters worse the howard government sent the troops to war without obtaining the authorisation of the governor general the only person who has the constitutional power to authorise a deployment instead an order was given by the defence minister under section 8 of the defence act a section which merely gives the minister control of the administration of the department and the defence force it is not a power to make war in so doing the howard government placed the soldiers sailors and airmen and women at risk in the event of a claim that any of them had committed an illegal act under the laws of armed conflict the first question that would arise in front of a tribunal would be whether the individuals concerned were lawfully in the theatre of conflict and without the governor general s authorisation they could not argue that they were we deserve better than this a decision as great as going to war the biggest decision a country can make and one on which the fate of millions of people will depend must be subject to the most exhaustive scrutiny australia s parliament should be a vital part of that process and not simply a rubber stamp governments proposing a particular military deployment should be required to explain to parliament why it is proposed what it will achieve and how the predictable costs will be met including looking after its victims and if a war is worth fighting it is worth the trouble to look after the victims as we did after world war ii to the enormous enrichment of our society so by all means let us have a rules based international order but to show that we are serious about that let us demand of our governments that they obey all of the rules all of the time posted by paul barratt at 7 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels asylum seekers international law refugees war powers 20 march 2017 australia21 media release re drug law reform senior police and prison officers stand side by side with drug users to call for law reform media release embargoed until 00 01 on march 20 2017 senior police and prison officers are today standing side by side with drug users calling for law reform to bring an end to killing and criminalising young australians drug related deaths diseases injuries crimes and social costs continue to rise despite more than 80 000 consumer arrests in australia each year so now four former police commissioners and assistant commissioners two former heads of corrective services a former supreme court judge and a former director of public prosecutions have made history putting their names to a report that says it is time for decriminalisation can australia respond to drugs more effectively and safely is being launched by jeff kennett founder of beyondblue and former liberal premier of victoria and bob carr f ormer labor minister for foreign affairs and former premier of new south wales this remarkable australia21 report does something that has never been done before it tables solutions backed by the very people who were enforcing drug laws until recently it comes out of an unprecedented roundtable convened by mick palmer who has served as commissioner of both the australian federal police and northern territory police what we now have is badly broken ineffective and even counterproductive to the harm minimisation aims of australia s national illicit drugs policy said mr palmer we must be courageous enough to consider a new and different approach drug users and their families have welcomed the stand if i had been given support instead of being jailed i would have spent 20 years as a productive member of the community instead of succumbing to my heroin habit that repeatedly ended me up in prison said kat armstrong who has finally gone straight cleaned up and founded the women s justice network to support other offenders trying to do the same i don t want more kids or anyone to die or to ruin their lives like i did we must intervene and help them now before it s too late she said i know because i lived it can australia respond to drugs more effectively and safely recognises the weight of evidence from australia and overseas that proves policing is singularly unsuccessful in reducing harms or changing drug use habits the threshold step is to redefine drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than one of criminal justice said dr alex wodak director of the alcohol and drug service at st vincent s hospital sydney from 1982 to 2012 and current president of the australian drug law reform foundation the australia21 report makes 13 key recommendations aimed at minimising harms for drug users and those around them reducing the use of untested unregulated drugs in unsafe environments providing health and social programs to reduce drug related problems reducing and even eliminating criminal control of the drug market reducing the prison population and its associated progress to hard drug use supporting police and the judicial system to focus law enforcement more usefully the australia21 report calls for an approach that distinguishes between high end production and trafficking on the one hand and personal use and possession on the other it does not recommend open slather legalisation of all drugs instead it supports incremental robustly evaluated steps towards a national policy of decriminalisation standardising the discretionary approach to 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