Door left open for a safe injecting room for Richmond

By Richard Willingham, Benjamin Preiss
Updated February 22 2017 - 6:13pm, first published 5:41pm
Premier Daniel Andrews is resisting calls to trial a safe injecting room.  Photo: Rick Stevens
Premier Daniel Andrews is resisting calls to trial a safe injecting room. Photo: Rick Stevens
Fiona Patten has secured a parliamentary inquiry into a safe injecting room for Melbourne.  Photo: James Brickwood
Fiona Patten has secured a parliamentary inquiry into a safe injecting room for Melbourne. Photo: James Brickwood

A safe injecting room could still be opened in Richmond after the Andrews government backed the parliament to investigate how it could work.

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