Clever Conversations

Marked annually on August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day 2021 is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose. As the event’s website explains, the day is an opportunity to ‘remember without stigma those who have died and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.’ International Overdose Awareness Day 2021 is a time to remember and, importantly, a time to act.

To mark the occasion, the DruGS team hosted an online discussion focussed on recent legislative changes in Victoria aimed at supporting the health and wellbeing of people who consume drugs. While a range of issues were covered some key topics include the:

• Recent changes to regulation of the overdose reversal drug naloxone;

• Recent decriminalisation of peer distribution of new injecting equipment and;

• Limits of the recent changes and other ambitious reform goals for the sector.

The discussants were Mr Sione Crawford, Executive Officer of Harm Reduction Victoria, Ms Jane Dicka, Health Promotion Team Coordinator, Harm Reduction Victoria and DruGS team member Associate Professor Kate Seear, Lead of the Gender, Law and Drugs (GLaD) program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

The discussion was facilitated by DruGS team members Dr Renae Fomiatti and Dr Adrian Farrugia, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

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Clever Conversations - Bold Thinking 2019 - Body Tech - The New Frontier For Humans by La Trobe University

Managing family violence in a cross border context is both challenging and unique.

Join Cross Border Commissioner Mr Luke Wilson, as he speaks about his role and influence, with specific focus on family violence.

Following his keynote, the audience heard from a panel featuring Councillors from Albury and Wodonga, and the family violence risk assessment and management panels from both sides of the border.

All participants are then invited to help identify specific cross-border issues in relation to family violence, and potential solutions to these problems.

Clever Conversations - Ideas And Society 2019 - Do Trade Unions Help Or Harm by La Trobe University

This year’s Mann Lecture explores the management of the Murray River from the early 1900s until now. In this conversation the audience is invited to understand how the lessons from this complex history, combined with contemporary environmental issues, should shape the way the Murray-Darling Basin is managed in the future.

Bold Thinking 2019 - Alcohol - What Kind Of Drinker Are You by La Trobe University

Ideas And Society 2019 - Climate Change And Australia - Where To Now by La Trobe University

Ideas And Society 2019 - Does Australia Need A Charter Of Human Rights by La Trobe University

Bold Thinking 2019 - Breaking Taboos - What's Off-Limit In Children's Books by La Trobe University

Ideas And Society 2019 - Australia And The Refugees Who Come By Boat by La Trobe University