
Today in the Legislative Council, MPs passed a motion calling on the Victorian Government to release former Police Commissioner Ken Lay’s report into a second medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD. The motion received overwhelming support.

Around 250 residents of Little River, a small community near Werribee, have protested against a corporate giant’s plan to build a multi-billion-dollar freight terminal next to western grasslands and upstream from internationally significant wetlands.

A new Victorian report into workplace drug testing has found that employees prescribed medicinal cannabis have routinely lost their job or faced disciplinary action just for taking a legal medication – and the law must be amended to protect them.

Legalise Cannabis Victoria held a pool party without a pool to protest the scarcity of public pools in the city’s west

Legalise Cannabis MP David Ettershank said regulating cannabis in Victoria would deliver billions in government revenue, free up police and court resource and direct funds towards research on safe levels of consumption.

From the 21st – 22nd of May, 2024, the Legislative Council of Victoria’s Legal and Social Issues Committee conducted public hearings for the Inquiry into Workplace Drug Testing in Victoria.