The Victorian government’s decision to reject a second Melbourne injecting room earlier this year provoked a polarised public debate, but one voice was largely missing in the media coverage.
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
Victoria’s Labor Party flipped and flopped in its support of Melbourne’s first medically supervised injecting room, depending on what was politically expedient and popular at the time.
Melbourne is set to get its second safe injecting facility, but objections to them continue to overshadow the enormous public health gains made.
The recent controversy embroiling the Richmond injecting room is overshadowing its positive community impact.
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