Thursday, 20 June 2024

Melbourne medically supervised injecting facility

The Clerk: Thirdly, I table a letter from the Attorney-General dated 19 June 2024 in response to a resolution of the Council on 21 February 2024 on the motion of Mr Ettershank and further to the government’s initial response on 30 April 2024 relating to a medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD. The letter states that the government is now in a position to produce three documents in full and three documents in part. It further states that in providing these documents the government has provided the substantive documents that are responsive to paragraph (b) of the order and not the large number of emails that fall within the scope of the order. The letter also states that the government makes a claim of executive privilege in relation to 11 documents in full. I further table the three documents provided in full and the three documents provided in part, together with schedules of the identified documents.