The NSW government today spruiked that Casino's CBD will host one of Australia's great transport events after Casino Truck Show secured funding under the state government's 2026/27 Regional Event Fund.

The NSW Minns Labor government has failed in its response to the NSW Drug Summit 2024 report, delivered 3 April, 2025. It is a weak response to the overwhelming scientific evidence that the best approach, to both drug use and drug abuse, is to make them both health issues outside the criminal justice system.

Today, six leading social services organisations issued a Joint Statement calling on the NSW government to urgently implement the recommendations of the Drug Summit Report.

As the NSW Upper House released its final report into the regulation of cannabis in NSW it is clear there is a significant and ongoing shift in community views on cannabis use with the latest Roy Morgan poll demonstrating that 48 per cent of Australians now support legalising marijuana.

On Thursday I delivered the Hal Wootten Lecture at the University of NSW*. I’ve got this column due today. 

‘If you don’t have a drug problem then the last thing you need is a conviction; if you do have a drug problem then the last thing you need is a conviction.’

Drug reform is finally on the NSW agenda and the NSW Drug Summit will be held for a day in Lismore on Monday, November 4. It will also be held for a day in Griffith on November 1 and for two days in Sydney on December 4 and 5.

Organisers of the only legal medically supervised injecting centre in NSW say they want every state parliamentarian to attend next month’s long-awaited drug summit.

The NSW Drug Summit today announced that one of the two regional forums will be held at Lismore on Monday, November 4. 

With the North Coast having the highest percentage of illicit drug use by people in Australia aged 14 years and over locals are calling to have one day of the NSW Drug Summit held in Lismore.