On Tuesday Victoria will decriminalise public drunkenness, more than 30 years after the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody urged for the offence to be abolished due to its disproportionate effect on Indigenous people.
The move to decriminalisation, which has also been recommended by several coronial inquests, including that into the 2017 death of a Yorta Yorta woman, Tanya Day, has already taken place in every other Australian jurisdiction except Queensland.
