Article 6G0HG Victorian government scrambling to prepare for long-planned end of public drunkenness laws

Victorian government scrambling to prepare for long-planned end of public drunkenness laws

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Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#6G0HG)

Sobering-up facility not completed, emergency workers unclear about their role in new scheme - and it begins on Melbourne Cup Day

It's been almost six years since Tanya Day hopped on a train to Melbourne but never made it to the city.

The 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman was arrested for being drunk in public on 5 December 2017 after she fell asleep. She was placed in a police cell to sober up, suffered a head injury and later died.

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