Australia’s highest house prices and highest cocaine use do not make a great combination.
Sydney has Australia’s highest house prices and is the nation’s cocaine capital, two crowning achievements that should be matters of deep regret for the damage they wreak on ordinary lives.
Victorians used 974.4 kilograms of coke. Melbourne remained Australia’s heroin capital, with new data showing Victorians accounted for almost half of the nation’s yearly consumption of the deadly and highly addictive drug.
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