Richard Di Natale: cooperating on policy. You won't get anywhere if you assume you can't have open and frank conversation with people. I haven’t been burnt yet

To find out more about how Australia’s cannabis laws were formed, in March 2019 Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells spoke with the leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Richard Di Natale. Senator Di Natale shared his insights on political bipartisanship, and particularly on how the medicinal cannabis laws followed an unlikely meeting of minds with ‘the father of the Senate’, Liberal Queenslander Ian Douglas Macdonald.

First, the good news. In recent decades, we’ve seen a substantial decline in the number of daily smokers in Australia and a substantial reduction in lung disease as a cause of death.