Very true.. but then again if you want to kick the can down the road the best thing to do is put it into committee!
The Sydney Morning Herald reports
The Labor government’s plan to host another drugs summit risks repeating the work of an $11 million ice investigation that has already produced expert evidence needed for urgent drug reform.
In comments echoed by the NSW legal fraternity, former ice inquiry commissioner Professor Dan Howard, SC, urged the government not to “reinvent the wheel” with another summit, which could result in further delays to fix problems he identified three years ago.
I understand it’s been part of Labor’s policy to hold a drug summit, but I have serious doubts whether this could achieve anything more than has already been achieved by the inquiry,” Howard said.
“It’s imperative that the government move on this. Further delay in drug law and policy reform seems unnecessary and potentially harmful to the welfare of persons with drug issues.”
The Law Society of NSW and the NSW Bar Association said they were also troubled by delays on urgent recommendations from the inquiry and the prospect of another summit, which the association described as “a superfluous and unnecessary public expense”.
Howard, an eminent law professor, led the 14-month inquiry that heard harrowing evidence of the impacts of drug abuse, before producing a final report in 2020 that made 109 recommendations.
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