have a look at the countries that don't have a drug problem and see what they do that is different.

Is Mise,
They have Laws which lawyers caren't allowed to distort. It doesn't get any clearer than when flying into Singapore where you read a pamphlet that gives you a final chance to discard any drugs before you disembark.
Bali is the same yet of all people Australians still get caught with drugs ?? What does that say for discipline & mentality here ?
A non-military national Service would severely curb drug abuse & that is an iron-cld guarantee.
Force lawyers to follow the Law instead of exploiting it. Police too need to be allowed to make moral judgement in the heat of the moment without fear of backlash.
Anyone who doesn't like that can always opt to be a decent citizen.

GREED Ismise it drives some to get involved never find me calling for death as they did in Bali, but not against life if it is needed
Individual, ok know your thoughts on national service.
Just maybe now you have backed away from it being military we can nearly agree.
Some will brand me cruel and uncaring, some traitor, but those on long term unemployment,not as a form of punishment, could benefit from a job, in the service of the community.
Why not? we could give hope to some without it, being unemployed can hurt.
isolate rural jobs from the rush to privatize save the jobs for locals, some may even re enter school and learn to read ,a huge rural problem

rural jobs from the rush to privatize save the jobs for locals,
Belly,
You just hit on a really big issue with this. There are many competent people in the rural & remote indigenous communities who have the compete with 'qualified' people from the city for jobs. I can safely state that for every 'qualified' bureaucrat there'd be ½ doz ten times more competent locals but they don't get the position because they don't have those utterly meaningless, purely academic nonsense 'qualifications'. Who do these 'qualified' go & see if they are in a jam ? You guessed it, the locals ! These 'qualification' are nothing more than a mastering of bureaucratic jargon that helps them pull the wool over the eyes of those higher ranking bureaucrats back in the city so they don't wake up to the funding rorts.
Rural Australia would be much better off if the interference from the bureaucrats was curbed substantially. The funding required for pointless travel, accommodation & travel allowances is beyond the wildesd dreams of most voters. Drugs are brought into communities not the other way round !

Individual think you live in Queensland, once did briefly my self, it had a great scheme of rural works.
In times of stress it put money in to rural projects and employed farmers who had struggles with drought or prices.
It worked, community got roads and bridges farmers and others the chance they needed.
These days money not common sense rules, in NSW country jobs, once reserved for country folk and contracted out.
WE CAN change social security for the unemployed and get returns for the community.
We should know reform is always worth looking at.

Belly,
yes, Qld was going strong until Ahern opened the gate for Goss & the rest is history.