Partnering for Public Health

Ruddock Philip General Attorney , ‘Government Amends Discrimination Legislation as Part of “Tough on Drugs” Strategy’ (Press Release, 3 December 2003); Explanatory Memorandum, Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2003 (Cth); Commonwealth, Hansard, House of Representatives, 3 December 2003, 23541 (Philip Ruddock, Attorney General).

Ibid.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Parliament of Australia, Provisions of the Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2003 (2004) 35–42, 45–8.

Waller Lisa , ‘Living with Hepatitis C: From Self-Loathing to Advocacy’ (2004) 180 Medical Journal of Australia 293, 293. See also Zickmund S Ho E Masuda M , ‘They Treated Me Like a Leper: Stigmatisation and the Quality of Life of Patients with Hepatitis C’ (2003) 18 Journal of General International Medicine 835.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, above n 3, 48.

Ibid 51–8.

Ibid 30–2.

This is particularly the case given the high return on investment in harm reduction strategies relative to the low return on investment in demand reduction or supply reduction strategies: Rydell C Everingham S , Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs (1994).

Meeting between Public Interest Law Clearing House, Disability Discrimination Legal Service, VIVAIDS and Philip Ruddock MP (Melbourne, 6 December 2003).

Wroe David Crabb Annabel , ‘Drug Addict Rights Set Off Rebellion’, The Age (Melbourne), 3 December 2003.

Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Drug Addiction) Act 2001 (NSW).

Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, above n 3, 43.

<www.disabilitydiscrimination.info> at 28 July 2004.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, above n 3, 24–34.

Ibid 8–18.

Ibid 19–34.

Ibid 41.

[2002] FCA 1619 (15 November 2000) (Branson J).

Carr v Botany Bay Council [2003] NSWADT 209 (9 September 2003).

See also Purvis v New South Wales (Department of Education and Training) [2003] HCA 62 (11 November 2003).

See especially, Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, above n 3, 5–34.

Commonwealth, Hansard, Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, 16 March 2004, 48 (Senator Marise Payne, Chair).

Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, above n 3, 31.

Ibid.

Ibid 33–4.

Ibid 20.

Ibid 30.

Ibid 45.

Ibid 36–7.

Ibid 37–8.

Name withheld, Submission 53, Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Provisions of the Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2003, 9 February 2004.

McIver Christine , Submission 83, Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Provisions of the Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2003, 5 February 2004.

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs, Road to Recovery: Report on the Inquiry into Substance Abuse in Australian Communities (August 2003) 34.

Ibid 33.

Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, Policy Positions of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia: Prevention (September 2003) 1.