Marion McConnell and her late husband Brian are the founding members of Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform which commenced in 1995. Marion is very pleased that this new initiative will bring together like minded individuals and organisations who will pool their expertise and understanding to bring more just, evidence based and health focussed policies to benefit drug users,…

Mark is a registered health psychologist working in private practice (Sydney) with a focus on applying psychological principles to lifestyle modification. Mark’s work history includes working for many years in the areas of HIV, and the broader area of sexuality – including being the President of the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapists – in 2001 Mark joined…

Mat Henderson is the Principal Lawyer of Reparation Legal, a state lecturer in charge at Thomas More Law School at ACU and casual academic at Southern Cross University law school. He is a long-time advocate for better patient access to medicinal cannabis and drug law reform generally. Mat has a particular interest in military veterans and frontline workers with PTSD…

Matt Noffs is the co-founder of the Street Universities and CEO of the Noffs Foundation, Australia’s largest drug and alcohol treatment service provider for young people under 25. […]

It’s undeniable that the ‘war on drugs’ has comprehensively failed. It has failed parents, families, young people, and it has failed the taxpayer.  We need to change course urgently. If we are serious about saving lives we have to get serious about harm reduction. In order to help drug users, their families and the wider community we need to take…

Michael Moore is the former CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia and is the Vice President/President Elect of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.  Michael is a former Minister of Health and Community Care and was an Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for four terms from 1989 to 2001. […]

Michael is currently Regional Community Manager for Bendigo Bank’s Melbourne Central Region. Michael has over 20 years international experience in biotechnology and technology commercialisation and finance.  He holds a BA from University of California Santa Cruz, a MSc from the University of London and an MBA from Monash University and has been a regular speaker at international conferences, trade shows…

Beginning her career in professional photography just 8 years ago, Michelle Grace Hunder already has two separate portrait series in the National Sound and Film Archive of Australia and is considered one of the most revered Australian Music Photographers. She is also a documentary film maker, producing the critically acclaimed Music Documentary “Her Sound, Her Story” as well as host of the weekly hip hop show on…

Michael John (Mick) Palmer AO, APM is a barrister and 33 year career police officer with extensive experience in police leadership and corporate governance, reform in community, national and international policing and security. He has had an active interest in human rights and illicit drug reform for many years. Mick joined the Northern Territory Police in 1963 and having progressed…

Neal Blewett has had a varied career as academic, politician and diplomat.  Following studies at the universities of Tasmania and Oxford, he taught political science at the universities of Adelaide and Flinders.  An opponent of Australian participation in the Vietnam War and an active civil libertarian, he entered Federal Parliament as  Labor member for the South Australian seat of Bonython…