Three bikie members were slapped with five-year bans on the weekend after police swooped on the Kings Cross nightspot in Sydney, as part of an offensive against organised crime in area
Alcohol not injecting room the real worry for the revival of Kings Cross
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By Ingrid van Beek
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The Daily Telegraphâs reporters lying in wait for weeks in a hotel room directly opposite, their cameras trained on our entrance, missed the scoop. The flickering light of the TV emanating from behind the closed curtains suggested they may have been distracted by that nightâs State of Origin match. (Queensland won again.) And so, unannounced, 20 years ago this year, the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross opened, becoming the first supervised injecting facility in the English-speaking world.