Sky News host Peta Credlin claims Melbourne is becoming a “shadow of its former self” after new details came to light about a report into safe injecting rooms from former police chief Ken Lay.
Mr Lay was tasked with leading consultations into a CBD-safe injecting room in 2020, with his findings finally handed over to the government last year after a lengthy delay.
Nine News reported on Monday night that Mr Lay had listed three CBD locations where drug use was most prevalent.
“If these drugs, like heroin, ice, meth, cocaine, ecstasy and fentanyl are health-destroying, life-wrecking scourges that we know they are, then we should be doing everything we can to stamp them out,” Ms Credlin said.
“No ifs, no buts, the message should be that illegal drugs destroy lives and should never be used.
“And those that do should be subject to heavy penalties, dealers should be locked up for long-term sentences, and the criminal gangs and the bikies behind the drug trade should be ruthlessly crushed.”
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I have a friend who lived in Melbourne sometime in the early 2010s. It was a beautiful and livable city then. Now, he and his family wants to relocate pronto! If Melbourne continues on this road of self destruction with policies that favor criminals and the wanton use of drugs, the people can only blame themselves for voting for leaders who are apparently mentally handicapped A-Holes with desires to bring Melbourne and its residents with them in some sick mass suicide fetish!
Peta for pm
Melbourne is dead, labor killed it
Why do you never mention the Heroin Injecting Room in King's Cross that has been there for 23 years ? 15 years before the Richmond Room opened . You also strangely never mention that Victoria Police Headquarters are directly across the road from the proposed 2nd Injecting Room in Flinders Street .
Instead investing in rehab they are making more injections rooms ?
Is Melbourne the only city in Australia with drug injecting rooms?
You're screwed. You are more concerned about the lives/rights of criminals than YOURS.🤭
How do they pay for there drugs
Melbourne,s CBD has always been a disaster
The society is set for the alcohol use due to the inability to eradicate its use,thus the same for other hard substances.
Drugs should be made illegal. Just like Indonesia it will save the country millions. Instead of gender studies kids must learn the consequences of drugs on family of communities
Vancouver BC is way worse. But Melbourne is trying hard to catch up.
It is strange that the majority of melbournians vote for this.
…. your view on the solutions has not worked over the past 50 years. A totally new solutions are needed now. The issues in Richmond have been there all along over the past 30 years. You have just never noticed!!
They get all this with no tax on them and smokers, well we pay a ton in taxes for a LEGAL produce. Hypocrisy all over.
build the safe injecting room next to dans house
Can we inject the latest Pfizer product there.💉💉💉😂😂😂😉⏰
Become a NINJA ROBOT and life will be happier !!
Fkn drug injecting rooms, although drugs are illegal, and you get vilified for vaping and need a damn doctors prescription, how the FK do you explain that.???!!! This country is fkd beyond repair.!!!!!
There isn’t a player in Australia who is not on illicit drugs. Get service stop insulting the intelligence of the Australian people it’s in your face and the only reason they’re denying it looking the other way because they’re making money out of it. It’s a simple as that morons🤔😡🇦🇺
Australia is dum as the states bravo lol
I’m NOT concerned about pot but the Cannabis party are idiots.
based facts 🙂
Order out of chaos
Facilitating public intoxication for profits. Open a junkie circus, property value drops, the rich get bargains, then move the junkie circus. Rinse & repeat.
I have 1st hand experience of all of this: Until a few months ago I had a shop in the CBD, I also lived in the same street; the homeless & junkies were in & out all day looking for an opportunity to steal & there was always the threat of violence as well let alone the screaming and fights in the street; a few weeks after I closed up and moved everything out (according to CCTV) 2 guys came to my shop at night to break in and rob it, saw it was empty & so they broke into a neighbours (jewellery) shop and robbed them instead. A jewellery shop was broken into in the city overnight the week before that happened but trying to find anything about this online is impossible; media black-out perhaps to keep the reality hidden? And this is just 2 incidents, there are so many more. The reinforced front window of my old shop has since been attacked and is cracked, apparently a lot of shops were smashed all on the same night. The city is absolutely vile nowadays, but it isn't anywhere in the media or online anywhere I look. Why is that? I can't tell you what a difference it has been healthwise for me since moving out of the city.
Melbourne is apocalyptic. I was shocked when I was last there. Empty buildings and defunct businesses.
I wonder if you can steal a 1000 dollars from these drug dealers dens?
Good. Safe Injecting Rooms save lives and stop the spread of STDs. All that matters.
Sister city to San Francisco?
Surely a "safe injecting room" is an oxymoron.
Looks like the other woke cites of the world.
Melbourne doesn't feel the same anymore.
Um, yeh. over 85% of all drug trades world wide are not between dealers, they;re between mates. I know up the chain there are bigger fish, but most of us "Drugos" never meet them. All drugs for personal use should be legalized regardless of risk. Want to curb heavy drug use in Australia? Start at the sources, it costs bikies $18 for the pseudo ephedrine to make $50 of Meth. Yet you can buy it direct from Laos for $3 a gram. Grow up Sky News, start targeting the feds and other federal institutions that allow those substances into the country on mass. You don't think it's strange how the feds targeted the Androngeda in 2005 and collected 4.4 tonnes of Extasy yet there were more reports the month before and for four months after of Extasy related hospitalizations? You think they made a dent, or just let most of it through. Wake up.
hate from the crazies
Isn’t Victoria lovely we have Illegal Immigrants and Illegal drug shooting rooms and the most sought after job is standing on a street where you pay no rent, no tax and if you sell something that kills 1,2 or more people No problem your not held accountable.
Alcohol kills
the govt here in Aus is run by rangers of the rectum and other such sordid groups
Prohibition propping up the blackmarket