Hospital to care for drunks

Bernard Humphreys

MILDURA’S public hospital will take on the responsibility of establishing a “place of safety” for intoxicated Indigenous people, as the State Government rushes to implement new laws related to public drunkenness. As part of a policy to drop the charge of public drunkenness and make it a health issue rather than a law-and-order matter, the […]

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