Qld: Drug policy sparks preselection row

AAP General News (Australia)
01-19-2000
Qld: Drug policy sparks preselection row

By Barbara Adam, State Political Correspondent

BRISBANE, Jan 19 AAP - An independent candidate at the upcoming Bundamba by-election
in Queensland today denied he was running on a pro-drugs platform.

Both Liberal and Labor have placed Bill Heck near the bottom of their how-to-vote cards
because of his drugs policy.

But Mr Heck claimed the major parties were "idiots" for reading a pro-drug message
in his crime and drug policy and painting him as a "hippie drug pusher".

He said his policy, which includes a stepped-up rehabilitation program for …