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“Our family’s experience of the interaction between the mental health and the justice systems for our family member was as traumatic as the incident that led to them being held in custody,” says our lead letter this week. WE write to echo concerns of racism in the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison expressed in Jon Stanhope’s column “The shameful politicians who don’t give a stuff” (CN March 4). As Canberrans, we struggle to get a voice to be heard, but how do we alarm those who put this in the “way-too-hard basket”? The case Mr Stanhope outlined was not an isolated incident of strip searching a female detainee in view of male detainees. ....
IAN MEIKLE. IS Canberra the cocaine-snorting capital of Australia? According to the latest analysis of the city’s sewage we’re right up there. Ian Meikle. The drug-monitoring program results, published by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, says that Canberra is now one of Australia’s most lucrative cocaine markets with an estimated consumption exceeding 880 milligrams per 1000 people per day. “The ACT, NSW and [parts of] Queensland had the highest capital city [cocaine] consumption figures in the nation,” the report says. “With the easing of [COVID-19] restrictions in the ACT and Tasmania, it [cocaine use] has increased sharply.” Doubtless, this comes as good news for illicit drug distributors waiting to capitalise on Labor MLA ....