Kings Cross
Bad stuff happens when you drive stolen cars on the footpath.
The footage over the weekend of two Aboriginal youths - both bleeding from bullet wounds and being dragged from a car in Sydney’s Kings Cross - is hard enough to watch from the comfort of your loungeroom. Imagine being the police officers now accused of “shooting at little kids”.
The driver and passenger, just 14 and 18, had been shot after the allegedly stolen vehicle mounted the footpath and ran down a 29-year-old woman.
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I can still remember the hope and optimism of the delegates to the Carr Government’s 1999 Drug Summit.
People with widely divergent views came together to find better ways to deal with drug addiction and the problems it brings. On much there was agreement, but the resolution to trial a medically supervised injecting centre was the subject of heated debate.
It was of little surprise that yesterday’s announcement by the NSW Government to end the “trial” status of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross again triggered serious discussion. Our decision was not taken lightly.
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Tessa says:
The safe injecting rooms do not supply the drugs, they simply provide a safe place to inject without risk of harm to the public and monitoring of the users so that overdoses are reduced. Read more »
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Adele says:
Articles like these put the cosunmer in the driver seat-very important. Read more »
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