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 | | Anita Beaty, from the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, in her visit to Sydney in August 1998, stated We noticed that a year out, folks were being arrested routinely, just by being on the street, that oppression built up and reached fever pitch a year away from the Games¹. |
 | | Whereas in Atlanta new laws were required to carry out this task of cleaning up the streets for the Olympics, police in NSW already have these powers, through the Police and Public Safety Act, the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act, and other laws, which give police wide discretionary powers. |
 | | Redfern Legal Centre¹s statement regarding the law makes the point that: ³It requires very little thought to see that the people most likely to be caught are either users cutting or taxing small quantities and or selling to support their own habit, or recreational users who may supply to friends. |
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