A bill to make Victoria’s first safe injecting room permanent in North Richmond passed the state’s upper house in a late-night vote on Thursday.
Labor’s bill to make the injecting room permanent passed unamended about 10pm on Thursday with support from the Greens, Legalise Cannabis, Animal Justice and the Liberal Democrats.recommended the Lennox Street facility become permanent and found it had achieved its foremost objective of saving lives, but that it had not overcome broader amenity challenges from the pre-existing drug market.
Residents against the location of the safe injecting room protest on the steps of parliament on Thursday.“It’s okay for the government to admit they have made a mistake,” the letter said. “All our community has ever wanted was to work with the government to find a solution that properly balanced the safety and wellbeing of residents and those who use supervised injecting facilities.”
The Greens proposed allowing children, pregnant women and those on court orders access to the safe injecting room — as was recommended by the Ryan report to minimise harm for the most vulnerable people in the community and minimise public injecting. The Andrews government rejected the recommendation outright.
Across both private and public sectors, there were 14,804 pharmacotherapy patients in Victoria compared to 24,340 in NSW in 2021. Patricia Collocott resigned as chief executive of North Richmond Community Health, which runs the site, shortly after the release of the Ryan report.
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