Sex Party calls for drug-injecting room in Richmond

By Benjamin Preiss, State Political Reporter
Updated December 12 2016 - 12:08am, first published December 11 2016 - 7:37pm
Fiona Patten has introduced a bill into the Victorian Parliament to allow for a consumption room pilot. Photo: James Brickwood
Fiona Patten has introduced a bill into the Victorian Parliament to allow for a consumption room pilot. Photo: James Brickwood
The notorious corner in north Richmond. Photo: Eddie Jim
The notorious corner in north Richmond. Photo: Eddie Jim

A drug-injecting room should be established in Melbourne's inner north as part of a parliamentary inquiry into illicit substances, Sex Party MP Fiona Patten says.

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