Mr. Andy O'Hara:

As Mr. Mason said, it is a geographical option at the minute. I wish to clarify and reframe something, as has been set out here. Most of our actions and understandings are based on a moral crusade against people who use drugs and the families they come from. We end up punishing people when we see them as the problem. We need to shift that narrative. We have heard today, and the evidence shows, that people who use drugs, and their families, are the solution and they have a structural analysis nobody else has. It is what the system is crying out for. We need to build the response and the solutions around that.

I will go back to some of the things that have been mentioned. Stigma is unbelievable and it goes across all classes. I refer to the number of people who are not speaking up, having a voice or getting the support they can get is because of stigma. We did a piece with FARI and went back to the peers and asked them if they wanted to do a piece of work for the national event, and they said, "Yeah, definitely." One person said something I thought was powerful. He said, "When we had no voice and were dying in our droves in the 80s and 90s, it was the mas who stood up, it was the mas who marched the streets, it was the mas who demanded the services and that is why we are where we are." It is about asking ourselves why we are still seeing the high level of deaths and harm and people who use drugs and their families are still saying they are not being listened to. We have what we need in terms of the networks that are there. We need to just build stuff around that and rely on that.