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Kids will be able to visit Victoria’s world-class zoos for free during the school holidays, saving mums and dads money and giving more families the opportunity to visit, thanks to a funding boost from the Andrews Labor Government.
As part of the Victorian Budget 2020/21, $20 million for Kids Go Free will ensure children under 16 can continue to enjoy free trips to the zoo on weekends, public holidays and during Victorian state school holidays.
Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo have proven to be family favourites over the holidays and on weekends.
Victorian families love their zoos, and the visitation numbers prove it: in the past three years, more than six million people have enjoyed visits to Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary, and Werribee Open Range Zoo.
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Victoria s upper house has passed a bill to decriminalise public drunkenness, 30 years after it was first recommended by a royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The Summary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisation of Public Drunkenness) Bill passed the Legislative Council on Friday afternoon.
Abolishing the offence of public drunkenness was a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 and the recent inquest into the death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day.
Ms Day was arrested in 2017 for being drunk on a train and placed in a Castlemaine police cell to sober up but hit her head and sustained a brain haemorrhage. She died 17 days later in hospital.
Victorian Parliament passes bill to decriminalise public drunkenness
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The Victorian Parliament has passed legislation to decriminalise public drunkenness after years of advocacy by the family of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day, who suffered a fatal fall while in custody.
Ms Dayâs family welcomed the passing of the legislation and said it was also a âlong overdue dayâ for Aboriginal people in Victoria.
Tanya Day, Yorta Yorta mother and grandmother.
The 55-year-old had fallen asleep on a train from Bendigo when police arrested her for public drunkenness and took her to Castlemaine police station. She fell and hit her head while in a police cell and was taken to hospital where she died 17 days later.