State Government Frozen on Ice Inquiry

Drug syndicates are sending ice to Australia through the mail service, federal police say after a nationwide operation targeting the syndicates in February 2020. Australian Federal Police

Experts say Indigenous communities are paying the price for the New South Wales (NSW) government’s delayed response to the drug inquiry into the ice epidemic in the state, two and a half years after it was delivered.

The commissioner who led the inquiry, Prof. Dan Howard, said he was distressed by the effects of the NSW government’s “hard-line'' approach to drugs.