open letter Ryan McGlaughlinExecutive DirectorSMART Recovery Australia Senator Jacqui Lambie, we commend your stance against welfare drug-testing Dear Senator, As the Executive Director of SMART Recovery Australia, and a former CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia, I am writing to comment on your decision to withhold support for drug testing welfare recipients, until such a time…
Sophie* is standing in line at her local pharmacy. In front of her, an older man is growing increasingly impatient. He shifts from foot to foot; sighs, yawns. The staff are all busy with other customers, reading out dosing information from the back of children’s Panadol boxes and filling repeats for Celebrex. Sophie, too, can…