Thursday,20 June 2024

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (19:10): (989) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Minister for Mental Health, and it relates to the Mitchell Street sobering-up centre in St Kilda. I have been contacted by some local residents down there who are concerned about what they came across in early May when they found an individual who was lying on the road. He said he was trying to get to 10 Mitchell Street. He was struggling to stand or walk, and he had a number of medical issues. But he had also just recently left hospital. He needed help to get off the street, so the residents, who were stopping cars so he did not get hit by a car, helped him with the use of a wheelie bin get to the side of the road. He was right outside the centre, but there was no-one in the centre. They rang an ambulance, and the ambulance paramedics arrived and attended to him as well as six police.