Network Against Prohibition (NAP) - NT Chapter

The Network Against Prohibition (NAP) is a group dedicated to promoting and protecting the health and human rights of illicit drug users around the globe as well as the rights of those living in communities in developing countries who rely on opium, coca, cannabis etc for their survival! NAP originally formed in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, however, an expansion is underway.



Election 2005 - The NAP Campaign


The NAP platform for the 2005 Northern Territory Election
Meet the NAP candidates
Campaign material
NAP Election updates
Election news
NAP media releases
Support for NAP
More election resources




Our platform

The NAP is calling for:

  • The repeal of drug prohibition; essentially the re-legalisation of drugs;
  • The release of all non-violent drug offenders from the Northern Territory Correctional System;
  • A Royal Commission into police, judicial and governmental corruption in the Northern Territory;
  • An end to zero tolerance policing of young people;
  • An immediate pardon for all members of the Network Against Prohibition and for associates of NAP who have been found guilty of charges relating to NAP activities; and
  • All current charges faced by NAP members to be withdrawn immediately by the NT Police and the Department of Public Prosecutions.
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Meet the NAP Candidates

Scott Richard White: Our candidate for Casuarina


Scott White

Scott White is a former soldier who is the father of two beautiful children. Scott was born in Brisbane (as a result of Cyclone Tracy) and has spent most of his life in the city. He is one of the NAP's founding members and has an avid interest in promoting and protecting human rights. Scott faces jail for his role in the NAP 'Parliament Invasion' of 2002. He will appear in the NT Supreme Court for a jury trial in July this year.

Read Scott's weblog here.

Click here to email Scott.

For more information on the electorate of Casuarina click here.

View the election results for this seat here.


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Fiona Bronwyn Clarke: Our candidate for Fannie Bay


Fiona Clarke at the Mindil Beach Markets

Fiona Clarke is 45-years-old, a Libran, mother of 2 adult daughters and a teenage son, and grandmother of 4 adorable little people. Fiona first came to the NT in early 1998 to participate in the Jabiluka protest and fell in love with the place and the people. Fiona is a volunteer with the Territory Users’ Forum (TUF) and is actively involved with the Network Against Prohibition (NAP).

Read Fiona's weblog here.

Click here to email Fiona.

For more information on the electorate of Fannie Bay click here.

View the election results for this seat here.


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Gary William Meyerhoff: Our candidate for Johnston


Gary Meyerhoff
Gary Meyerhoff is a former Perth youth worker who, after moving to Darwin in 1999, worked at Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Services. Mr Meyerhoff served in the Royal Australian Navy for three years and has been heavily involved in Australia’s response to the worldwide HIV epidemic. As such, he is a loud proponent of drug law-reform, which he is convinced is the only real way to protect our young people against the possibility of drug-related harm.

Read Gary's weblog here.

Click here to email Gary.

For more information on the electorate of Johnson click here.

View the election results for this seat here.


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Robert Paul Inder-Smith: Our candidate for Millner


Rob Inder-Smith

Rob Inder-Smith is a former print journalist and a founding member of the Network Against Prohibition. In 1999, he became the first journalist ever sacked from the Northern Territory News. Mr Inder-Smith is a voluntary carer for an autistic boy.

Read Rob's weblog here.

Click here to email Rob.

For more information on the electorate of Millner click here.

View the election results for this seat here.


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Stuart Highway: Our candidate for Nightcliff


Stuart Highway

Stuart Highway has run the Anarchist stall at Nightcliff Markets every Sunday for six years. In 2000, Mr Highway was a voluntary English tutor in East Timor. He has a strong sense of social justice and is well-known for his active role in the East Timor and Aceh human rights issues, as well as the struggle for local long-grasser rights.

Read Stuart's weblog here.

Click here to email Stuart.

For more information on the electorate of Nightcliff click here.

View the election results for this seat here.



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Campaign material


NAP statement to the NT Youth Roundtable

Poster for the 23rd Community Smoke-In

Drug House Laws Poster

Anti-Prohibition Poster

Campaign flier

NAP is not issuing preferences in the election. If you do decide to vote, and why would you bother anyway, we just ask that people in the electorate of Nightcliff give their second preference to the other independent candidate, Andrew (Legs) Arthur.


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NAP Election updates


NAP Election update 1

NAP Election update 2



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Election news


Lost scandal amid NT election politicking

NT makes it perfectly Clare

New indigenous party likely after NT landslide

Labor and Aborigines need to talk, says Tilmouth

Burke in trouble as Labor storms to victory in NT

Labor still the strong tip among punters

Counting begins in NT election

NT parties play down election prospects

Gulpilil 'moved on' from campsite

Gulpilil angry at plan to jail drunks

AM - ALP the NT election favourite

AM - Clare Martin defends anti-social behaviour laws

Proposed anti-social laws in NT to make it tougher for long grassers

Martin defends proposal for habitual drunks

Vote won't count

Casuarina candidate to be tried on invasion charges

CLP promises expansion of DNA testing at crime scenes

NT chief poised for second term

New police station

Sniffing crime

Blackflip: Topsy turvey world of NT politics

Brown promotes Green alternative to voters jaded by other parties

Drug crackdown loses votes

Shame name

Labor accused of wooing rednecks

A gallery of rogues, or just blessed with short memories?

Labor’s new low: NT government plays the race card

CLP accuses Labor of chasing Redneck vote

Civil liberties chief attacks youth curfew plan

Prison group hits out at ALP's antisocial behaviour policy

Doubts raised over Alice Springs youth curfew plan

Let's give our candidates a thorough exam

80 candidates to contest NT poll

CLP pledges to win back the streets

Martin defends law and order plans

Reaching top gear in reverse

Prisons overcrowded

NT Govt defends anti-social behaviour policy

Drunkenness a health issue, says Burke

Drunk itinerants to be jailed

CLP promises to get tough on petrol sniffing

Govt pressured to ease jail over crowding

Youth worker airs Juvenile Justice Bill fears

Law and order hype brewing in NT


To read all the lastest Northern Territory drug news click here.

To read the latest NAP media coverage click here.


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NAP media releases


Remember the racist 'Drug House' laws

No real change under 'Laberal'

NT Greens prop up racist, homophobic regime

Parliament Invasion: Candidate in court

Candidate: Release drug war prisoners

Council fines candidate

Election candidates facing court

NAP challenges ANCD on drug prohibition

Time to ‘name and shame’ corrupt police

NAP candidates challenge drug prohibition

Near-blow for NAP's election bid


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More election resources


The Northern Territory Government

The Northern Territory Electoral Commission

NT Greens

Socialist Alliance NT Branch

ABC - NT Election 2005

ABC - NT Election 2005 web forum

The Northern Territory News

Pollbludger

Inside Politics

NT Elections Candidates handbook


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