Local Law 8 Repealed or Not?
Written by shane on March 23, 2010 – 1:14 am -On November 24th last year Done by Law spoke to Fitzroy Indigenous elders about Local Law 8 - a Yarra city council provision intended to ban public drinking, listen to the show here.
Last week Yarra Council repealed the law at a special council meeting addressed by a number of prominent Indigenous leaders in the area. The following day, the council reinstated the law on a technicality.
Meghan Fitzgerald from Fitzroy Legal Service joined us to talk about whats happening with the law, and what some of the provision’s effects have been.
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