AMA president Kerryn Phelps urged other states to follow the New South Wales proposal for a trial with cannabis for the terminally ill. Dr Phelps says it is a commonsense approach to have a clinical trial. The Australian Democrats in South Australia want a national approach towards a proposal to trial cannabis as a pain reliever for the terminally ill. The Democrats' leader in South Australia, Mike Elliott, says a South Australian parliamentary committee recommended the therapeutic use of cannabis several years ago. He says the most effective approach to a proposed trial would be to involve all states.
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One of Australia's most powerful academic groups is set to intervene to keep education at the top of the federal election agenda. A new New South Wales law will require child killers, paedophiles, and people who sexually interfere with children to tell police where they live and work and what car they drive.