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Gun licence 'rubber stamping' process panned by coroner

Medical evidence should be required when applying for a gun licence after a man with a history of mental illness took his life, a state coroner says.

AAP · Jun 10

‘Will cost lives’: addiction experts condemn decision to scrap proposed safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD

Government claims no appropriate location could be found for long-mooted second facility

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2024

Dumping of second city injection room 'will cost lives'

A second supervised injecting room will not be built in Melbourne, after the state government rejected a report recommending one for the CBD.

AAP · Apr 23, 2024

In Melbourne's CBD, drug outreach workers say need for a supervised injecting room is rising

Public health workers say the Victorian government can't ignore the evidence supporting a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD, in submissions to a state review into the controversial proposal.

ABC News · May 10, 2023

Experts urge Victoria to provide promised CBD safe injecting room or risk further harm to vulnerable people

Andrews government bought a Flinders Street site for $40.3m in 2021 but it has sat empty since

The Guardian - AU · Apr 17, 2023

Ex-top cop steps down from Vic board roles

The Victorian government is searching for new heads of its public ambulance and mental health boards after the resignation of ex-Victoria Police boss Ken Lay.

AAP · Aug 12, 2022