VIC: Highlights of day 6 of the Victorian election campaign

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-1999
VIC: Highlights of day 6 of the Victorian election campaign

MELBOURNE, Aug 30 AAP - Highlights of day six of the Victorian election campaign.
Victorians go to the polls on September 18.

POLICY LAUNCHES:
* Opposition leader Steve Bracks today announced the CBD, inner-city Collingwood, bayside
St Kilda, Footscray in Melbourne's west and Springvale in the outer-eastern suburbs, would
house safe heroin injecting rooms. Premier Jeff Kennett accuses Labor of playing with people's
lives.

* The Victorian ALP will fund a $150 pre-school subsidy for low income families and provide
a $76 million boost for disability services as part of a $136 million community services
policy.

* Mr Kennett announces tougher rules for developers, and the increased involvement of
municipal councils and local communities in planning decisions.





OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:

* The Labor Party's official campaign will be held in Ballarat on September 8.





POLLS:

* According to the AC Nielsen AgePoll, the coalition surged to a 16-point lead over the ALP
in the first days of the state election campaign, pointing to an increased majority for
Premier Jeff Kennett at the September 18 poll.



QUOTES:
"The reality is we have injecting facilities around Melbourne, on street corners, in
playgrounds, in parks and I just find that abhorrent," Mr Bracks said on 3AW in announcing the
five suburbs the ALP would set up heroin safe injecting rooms.

"This isn't about playing around with people's lives and at the moment that's all I'm
afraid the Labor Party is doing," Mr Kennett attacks the Bracks plan.

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