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Expert panel devises health-based response to public drunkenness in Victoria
If a health-based response to public drunkenness which has been proposed for Victoria had been in place on December 5, 2017, the day may have ended very differently for Tanya Day.
Key points:
- An expert panel has outlined how to replace Victoria’s public drunkenness laws with a health-based response
- It says two years will be needed to carefully design and implement a new model
- The Government says it will introduce legislation to decriminalise public drunkenness before 2021
The 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman was asleep on a train from Bendigo to Melbourne when she was taken off by V/Line officials and handed to police, who put her in a cell to sober up.
There, she struck her head at least five times, suffering traumatic brain injuries which…
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