Victorian coroner wants public drunkenness abolished as crime
The Coroners Court of Victoria Source: AAP
The death of an Aboriginal woman after being in police custody has prompted a Victorian coroner to call for abolishing public drunkenness as a crime. Victoria and Queensland are the only states where public intoxication remains an offence after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended dropping the crime in 1991 because it disproportionately impacted Indigenous people.
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