In the 1980s, Joh Bjelke-Petersen railed against HIV as a moral failing, calling it a 'punishment from God'. He blocked safe-sex education and condom machines. Activists like Felicity Young had to funnel money through nuns to get any public health response. Four decades later, Queensland's LNP government has again brushed aside calls for a needle-exchange program in prisons, after reports that up to 300 prisoners may have been exposed to HIV. The line is the same: 'there should be no needles in prisons'. Abstinence won't stop a virus. It never has. We've changed premiers, but not the outdated moral panic that costs lives. Reply below with your memory of the AIDS crisis in Australia.