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A Melbourne city councillor has moved a motion opposing a safe-injecting room anywhere in the CBD, arguing such a centre would cause the cityâs âeconomic decimationâ.
Cr Roshena Campbell made the move on Thursday and the council will now vote on Tuesday over whether to fight a proposed second safe-injecting room on the grounds it would thwart the CBDâs post-COVID recovery.
The proposed site of the new safe-injecting room at 248 Flinders Street, Melbourne.
The Age revealed this week that a new service is expected be located opposite Flinders Street Station, near popular al fresco dining laneway Degraves Street.
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Key Victorian crossbench MP Fiona Patten has called for a supervised injecting room in Footscray.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten will on Wednesday raise the issue at a drug policy symposium in New Zealand’s federal parliament.
She has also called for centres in St Kilda and Dandenong, similar to that established in North Richmond.
“The North Richmond medically supervised injecting room has been a huge success in the time it has been open,” she said.
“It has saved dozens of lives and wrapped a bunch of other key health and social services around people that have helped them manage or break free from their addiction.