Pure Politics

Advertisement for ‘Bile Beans’ in The Bulletin, 22 October 1903, p.6. (Advertiser's capitalisation).

Beale O. , Royal Commission on Secret Drugs, Cures & Foods Vol.1, Victorian Government, Melbourne, 1907, p.426.

Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Legislative Assembly, Session 1871, Vol II, p.545.

Young W. , 'Report on the Condition of the Chinese Population in Victoria in Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Legislative Assembly, Session 1868, Vol III, p.1293.

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 31 July 1873, p.903; Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 8 September 1874, p.1201.

Manderson D. , Proscription and Prescription: Commonwealth Government Opiate Policy 1905–1937, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1987, p.9, (italics added).

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 17 October 1905, p.2124.

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 17 October 1905, p.2124.

McCoy A.W. , Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia, Harper & Row, 1980, p.80.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers, ‘Opium: Report of the Comptroller-General of Customs’, Session 1907–8, Vol II, Sydney, p.1917; ‘Smuggling opium: A profitable business’, Argus, 29 November 1910.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers, above.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers, above.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers, above.

‘Fortunes in Opium. Futility of Prohibition. Some Remarkable dodges’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 1908.

‘Morphia match boxes’, Argus, 15 April 1916.

‘Sale of cocaine: Two chemists fined’, Argus, 14 July 1920; ‘Less drink, more drugs: Doctors and chemists blamed’, Argus, 7 July 1921.

‘Alarming extent of drug traffic’, Argus, 13 December 1928.

‘Women drug addicts: Victims of the ‘snow’ habit’. Argus, 30 May 1923; ‘Victims of cocaine: Hundreds of women addicts’, Argus, 8 August 1929.

Manderson D. , From Mr Sin to Mr Big: A History of Australian Drug Laws, Oxford University Press, 1993, p.95.

Davies S. , Shooting Up: Heroin in Australia, Hale & Iremonger, 1986, p.39.

‘More drugs under strict control’, Argus, 17 January 1942; ‘Control of patent medicines likely’, Argus, 3 September 1943.

‘Legal Trade in Narcotics’ in (1953) 5(2) Bulletin on Narcotics 48–9.

‘Much heroin used, but few addicts’, Argus, 9 January 1949.

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 10 November 1953, p.1986.

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 10 November 1953, p.1986.

Report by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, ‘The Development of International Control of Marijuana’, in Solomon D. , (ed.), The Marijuana Papers: An Examination of Marijuana in Society, History and Literature, Panther Modern Society, London, 1969, p.90.

Robins L.N. , ‘Vietnam Veterans’ Rapid Recovery from Heroin Addiction: A Fluke or Normal Expectation', (1993) 88 Addiction 1044.

New South Wales Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 9 August 1967, p.327.

Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking, Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse Report from the Senate Select Committee, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1971, p.31.

Krivanek J. , Heroin: Myths and Reality, Allen & Unwin, 1988, p.165.

McCoy A.W. , above, p.340.

Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 22 November 1983, p.2113.

‘Opiates killing more each year’, Age, 2 April 1985.

‘Hawke's $100m drug trip’, Canberra Times, 15 April 1985.

‘Alcohol and heroin the problem drugs’, Age, 12 May 1986.

‘Delianis urges debate on legalising drugs’, Age, 16 June 1988.

Schedule IV of the Act defines a commercial quantity of heroin as 1.5 kilograms; cocaine: 2 kilograms; marijuana: 50 kilograms. A trafficable quantity of heroin or cocaine is 2 grams and of marijuana, 250 grams.

‘Strategy questioned, as war boldly declared’, Canberra Times, 3 November 1997.

‘Moore faces PM's ire over ‘mean-minded’ attack’, Canberra Times, 30 May 1998; ‘Drugs: Where do we go from here’, Age, 28 May 1999.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 25 May 1998, p.3553.