If ever a facility is put up and a politician wouldn’t have it near their house, you have your answer.
@koneking2569
Ай бұрын
They didn't just randomly select Richmond, Richmond has always had a collective of heroin use, though they should never have put it within in close proximity to a school.
@kreagle
Ай бұрын
@@meandrost2824 where’s the perfect location?
@meandrost2824
Ай бұрын
@@kreagle I'd answer but I'd be labelled a buzzword.
@lt8558
Ай бұрын
The affluent and upper middle class suburbs where politicians can afford to live don’t have heroin epidemics going through the community. I’m 40 and I’ve had family friends whose sons died from heroin in Richmond in the late 80s/early 90s…the inner city (especially Richmond is Melbourne’s heroin capital and it has been for a very very very long time - going back to the 60s and 70s. My family lived in Richmond when they first migrated to Australia - So, I know that for a fact)… also, there were crooked cops who dealt heroin, that’s who the deceased son of our family friend would get him heroin from.
@rasputin2k851
22 күн бұрын
@@lt8558I agree with your statement other than to say I think footscray was the herpin capital in the 90s/00s
@ltisenotem
Ай бұрын
I did maintainance at the Richmond inj rooms. The most shocking thing was seeing people dealing and shooting up while hearing kids play next door. The users need help, and they need these rooms. Just keep it well away from kids. No primary kids should need to think about heroin abuse, let alone see it on a daily basis.
@JasonDouglasRalph67
Ай бұрын
The drug scene around Richmond is tiny compared to what was going on in St Kilda in the mid to late 1980's or Fitzroy/Collingwood in the 1990's. I lived on Fitzroy St and Grey St from 1988 to 1991 and it was mayhem around the clock, on a warm summer night there would be hundreds and hundreds of people milling about. There was dealing in the coffee shops and night spots, people would OD on the street or just drop dead all the time, the old abandoned buildings were full of squatters, there were women and kids selling themselves on the street and perverts "kerb crawling" at all hours. Then the scene moved to Smith St and the south end of Brunswick St around Atherton Gardens in the mid 90's and things got really nasty, I think at it's worst as many people were dying from heroin overdoses as in car crashes. At that time I lived a bit away from Smith St, down near the freeway, but I worked on Smith and where St Kilda was more of a madhouse where people mostly left each other alone Collingwood was genuinely dangerous. I was king hit by a junkie and knocked out cold during a robbery, people got stabbed, muggings, car and house burglaries were non stop and there were so many overdoses that the ambulances were going from one to another throughout the day. I do a fair bit of work in the inner city these days and while the area around the injecting room isn't great it doesn't feel dangerous at all, there are some pretty sad cases walking about, like, I'd never seen junkies walking around in literal rags before but in comparison to the past "scenes" it looks like it's all pretty much under control.
@davidharvey321
Ай бұрын
all of the social housing towers are going to be demolished. Bring on the hell in outer suburbs basically, all Dan Andrews approved... basically the last thing he approved when he was still in power.
@kimsherlock8969
Ай бұрын
@@JasonDouglasRalph67 I enjoyed your comment and thoughts on history that may be forgotten. Put your history on paper or it will corrode. Melbourne.....My her/his ever changing moods .....Paul Weller Style Council.
@derrick9245
Ай бұрын
That was a great read I would love to hear more personal experiences!
@kimsherlock8969
Ай бұрын
@@JasonDouglasRalph67 I love hearing real history You speak as it was happening. I see Kilda touristy new to Melbourne in this raw truth in this time I was oblivious 😐 it was sort of like real city lifestyles and culturally diverse groups . I remember
@kimsherlock8969
Ай бұрын
@@JasonDouglasRalph67 wonderful song for Old Melbourne Town Paul Weller's ever changing moods.
@MaggotDiggo1
Ай бұрын
I went for a walk to explore that part of the city a few months ago and I thought to myself "whats going on around here?" because it was noticeably rougher than other parts of Richmond. This video explains what's going on.
@louisebb4183
Ай бұрын
Instead of helping to get of this mess and get their lives on truck we are supplying this sh… free of charge and destroying their lives even more ! Someone should be arrested for this decision.
@ashdog236
Ай бұрын
I work in Richmond, never a dull moment 😂
@benexton6868
Ай бұрын
Without the room you would have a huge increase in people using on the streets. North richmond has been a hot spot well before the room came about and its actually nowhwre near as bad as it was 10 years ago
@secretgoldfish
Ай бұрын
I had my office in York street and was so glad to leave (Every morning I was just glad that my office wasn't burgled).The rooms were only a small (and resulting) part of the nasty drug problems there, which was even worse when there was also an ice epidemic. So very sad, especially one time where I helped an addict climb over the fence when she was stuck near the train station only to see an ambulance collect her body 30 minutes later from a nearby alleyway/shooting location.
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
Really sad, and exactly the reason facilities like this are so important
@secretgoldfish
Ай бұрын
@@therealzannonymous I found most of the other residents against the rooms whenever discussing them, where I was more sympathetic but not completely sold either when further considered. No easy answer either way, if you are overly sympathetic/tolerant you can unfortunately (and unintentionally) enable (encourage) something that is massively self-destructive, illegal and REALY sad..... and if you are the opposite and justifiably annoyed by the associated nastiness then you can just end up tolerating the misery and death of others and the already existing big problem. I could never understand why the Police appeared to do so little outside of simply surveilling it. I'd often walk past users shooting up, where i'd then see the police drive by in the opposite direction a couple of minutes later......and just keep driving on.....almost like they were told not to bother with the low-levels (and subsequent paperwork) and just surveil it instead (to perhaps track back to the bigger fish?). We used to have a queue form a couple of times a week near the corner of Hoddle and York St's where one of the local dealers had clearly organised to meet 5-10 users at a time openly on the street (like an even more depressing dole queue), where all the local residents would see it every few days and knew who and where the dealer lived but nothing was ever done.
@tacticalflamingo5818
Ай бұрын
nice job capturing it, I use to work in the area at night doing weddings and it was crazy we always needed security.
@tybaltyrant1
Ай бұрын
I lived there for 6 years while working in East Melbourne. The injecting room made the entire area much worse. You'll notice that no one in the Labor government sends their kid to North Richmond Primary on Lennox St, where the kids cannot dare walk home without parents and they can watch people inject from their playground on a daily basis. Not every noodle shop is doing well, plenty of shop fronts still for lease last time I was there. My favourite place closed down because families weren't going to the area as much. I'd often chat with the owner and he'd lament at what the government had done to his neighbourhood and his business. It's a shame because that area leading into Abbotsford and the parklands is truly what feels like home to me in Melbourne.
@Alexander_Dunn
Ай бұрын
Richmond West Primary, where did you get North Richmond Primary from?
@finnjohnn3k
Ай бұрын
But as a whole do remember what it was like 20 even 10 years ago how dangerous and disgusting this area was. Needles everywhere heaps people sleeping on the streets I remember stepping on a needle that’d be thrown over my fence. Allmost the issues that the shop owner describes could be solved by a legal supply of these drugs and the injection centre. Multiple injection rooms to stop centralising the issue.
@benexton6868
Ай бұрын
Creating more injecting rooms doesn't decentralize the problem. North Richmond is the hot spot because that is where the drug market is. @@finnjohnn3k
@warner72
Ай бұрын
The beat/music @11:10 sounded familiar and I suddenly realised it's similarity (or actual presence) in the film 'Requiem for a Dream' 😂
@kizza1645
Ай бұрын
Excellent video
@Fruppelkungen
Ай бұрын
I've been working in that area before and after the injection room and its much cleaner and safer with it. You should have walked through the parking garage behind the room, it used to be full of nodding people between the cars and stairs. Still see people shooting up in there sometimes but at least they pick up their needles to be exchanged now. Its a bit shit journalism of you to cowar away from the area we want to see. Be respectful and stay safe but try to walk around, film more hot spots and talk to the people who know the situation best, the users. I've spoken to many of them and they're usually chill, worst case they are easy to out run.
@kimsherlock8969
Ай бұрын
Keep up with your work and keep learning The photography is impressive showing Melbourne town distantia One step away from a suberb of extraordinary differences 🎉
@debbieanne7962
14 күн бұрын
Apparently most times nowadays when one attempts to buy a deal of heroin in North Richmond they get ripped off. So probably heading off to the injecting room to hit up Panadol. The area was a lot worse twenty years ago
@xutubeify
Ай бұрын
Amazing vid mate! I live in geelong so was great to learn more about the sort of situation thats going on right now over there. Keep it up! ❤.
@mrsmith1097
7 күн бұрын
I used to work in North Richmond, man that place is the worst suburb I’ve ever been to in Melbourne. Even Broady is preferable.
@liambenno
Ай бұрын
I moved to Melbourne 3 years ago, I rented 30 metres from there in an apartment. It wasn't the worst shit I've seen at all. But my car was broken into, I saw people lying in the middle of the footpath, heaps of drug dealers all around the area and Victoria St. Some nearby businesses get vandalized every other month
@adavies971985
Ай бұрын
Got my sub mate! Great content and presentation. Supportive parents are the best!
@secretgoldfish
Ай бұрын
The invisible Hoddle St border between Richmond and East Melb was odd.....and like different worlds.
@JohnDoe-yq9rt
Ай бұрын
Melbourne is going to look like Philadelphia or Los Angeles one day
@jimsyhammond
Ай бұрын
You wish! We're not even close to those shitholes
@PatJC
Ай бұрын
Awesome quality here, subscribed.
@KINGZMurphy
Ай бұрын
just got recommended this channel liked and sub
@tomfoley1401
Ай бұрын
Do one on St Kilda and the underground red-light district and homelessness. The redlight district used to be seen on broad daylight but now i dunno. I have a friend that works on telesales. And the most used public phone in Melbourne is the one outside Sacred Heart Mission. Lately there has been a tonne of news on the stabbings in st kilda and the shutting down of rooming houses. Leaving people to sleep rough. This idea of moving the problem elsewhere isn't working (and its horrid people think that way). It just leaves humans sleeping rough.
@JasonDouglasRalph67
Ай бұрын
That was the difference back in the 1980's, there were loads of rooming houses and residential hotels in St Kilda, people used to live at the George, the Gatwick, the Waldorf etc. They weren't all junkies but by and large they were poor, or old, or disabled. St Kilda used to be a cheap place to live, I think I was paying about $400 a month for a 2 bedroom flat back then but the gentrification beginning in the 90's pushed all those people out and made a lot of them homeless. What I mean to say is that you could have a drug habit and still have a roof over your head, even if it was a cheap, filthy room or a squat.
@troyonplanet
Ай бұрын
That’s nothing like it used to be given prostitution has now been de-criminalised and so much of it has gone online for advertising services
@HonestJunkie
28 күн бұрын
Mate there must be a bunch of zeros missing from your subscriber count. I truly don't understand ... you do exceptionally real Doco's mate.
@therealzannonymous
27 күн бұрын
Thanks mate! Hopefully tack a zero on in the not too distant future :)
@MargaretCampbell583
Ай бұрын
I have not see anyone injecting in the street
@zeke.s3407
Ай бұрын
great video
@theadventuresofzoomandbettie
Ай бұрын
I lived in the neighboring block before the injecting room got there, and there was druggo's dying in the streets, including at the primary school area, on the regular. Literally, all the time. The facility is in the correct location for the purpose. Everyone crapping on about how bad it is doesn't know what it was like beforehand.
@seiner0ne
Ай бұрын
Richmond had always been rough, high drug use and crime. Rather deal with smack heads then meth heads
@troyonplanet
Ай бұрын
Nah, Victoria St in Nth Richmond was once a busy, vibrant shopping strip and bar area back in the 80s and 90s - it was cool and it was safe - in the last 20 odd years it’s turned into a shithole full of empty shops and zombies walking around everywhere…
@kreagle
Ай бұрын
Wandered past the injecting facility on numerous occasions. Had no issues on safety. There are three pubs across the road from the primary school. Why aren’t people complaining about that fact? What is the right spot people allude too?
@justinm2697
Ай бұрын
I'm guessing that for the most part the three pubs don't have drunk people spilling out onto the street when kids are likely to be around.
@kreagle
Ай бұрын
I imagine some if not all the kids live in the area where drug dealers already operated in the local government housing. The kids are probably more conscious of their neighbours drug problems.
@potheadluck
Ай бұрын
nice work
@Hookstergram
Ай бұрын
Id like a bong smoking room, i bet thet room is cool as fk
@Intervene
Ай бұрын
Can someone explain where they are sourcing their drugs from and why there hasn't been a clampdown on it and dealers? You hear of all these drug busts yet this still goes on?
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
I think most of it comes from the Golden triangle region in SEA, but produced mostly in Myanmar. The government is very unstable there (myanmar) so the industry thrives. It's then sent through to Aus. Some shipments are intercepted but they can't check everything. It's not physically possible. What they catch represents just a fraction of what makes it through. A bust is basically meaningless to their enormously profitable enterprises. That is my understanding anyway.
@user-sy8wq4kq2y
Ай бұрын
Should have these in every town of oz!
@Max-gs9oe
Ай бұрын
Vaping illegal now but you can rock up with your injectable’s with government help to inject
@jodieaydemir7868
Ай бұрын
So strange this came up on my feed.. I went to that primary school back in 1979-1980 lived in those high rise I remember as a child being scared even then because people would be throwing trolleys over the balcony’s and a child was also murdered thrown down the rubbish chute.. I hadn’t been down to Richmond recently and met up with a friend who was getting Botox last Thursday and where we went was exactly where you were filming across the road from the injecting room located at 102 Elizabeth street it says the place is a specialist centre but it’s a husband and wife team doing Botox for cheap.. We parked the car a few metres down where a Salvos help centre is and my friend and I were approached for money by a man that looked desperate for money (no judgement).. I guess I was more shocked that it is right next door to the Primary at just how close.. Times have indeed changed.. We have a restaurant in coburg and we have the issue with ice addicts and homelessness… Coburg has also become indeed a scary suburb also.. Many shops have closed. Many addicts begging people on busy Sydney road.. Police daily has become the normal.. Sorry for the typo and grammar mistakes it’s almost midnight writing this..
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
Hey that was a really interesting read. Thanks for sharing, and best of luck with your business
@gureno19
Ай бұрын
I lived on New St about 80m up from the injection room for 5+ years in Richmond. All in all, it was ok, if you were street smart, which I had been after years of living in Bethnal green in London back in the early 2010s..... I.E keep your head on a swivel, dont leave anything in your car if you have to street park it, which most residents surrounding the injection site need to do, and dont walk around there at night or hell even during the day 😂, just flat out avoid proximity to that location. I used to get woken up sometimes at 3am with this woman who used to get naked and walk up and down the street singing little mermaid songs, which look, mildly hilarious, but also very very sad and not great before an early morning meeting 😂 and there constantly be people losing their minds during the day screaming in some form of drug induced psychosis. I also had a motor bike and a car behind a secure gate at my apartment, and one morning came out to find a meth head had made a tent between my bike and car by attaching a tarp to the two vehicles 😂, which obviously i was very excited about as it was a mint RS3 at the time and a brand new Royal Enfield interceptor i had been modifying into a scrambler. We also had a number of individuals found dead down the road from O.D, usually found in residents entrances. The resounding thoughts from the residents and business owners were that it created a mini slum, as you had the huge government housing blocks with 1000s of battlers, and then you had an injection site that flooded in all the cities addicts for methodone, and honestly im talking 50-100 addicts sometimes outside that clinic, all majority looked to be sleeping rough, which is hardly something you want to live near or be near.
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
Wow, sounds like you've been around some wild stuff there! Thanks for sharing :)
@justinm2697
Ай бұрын
"All in all it was OK" You then proceed to write paragraphs explaining how it's not OK.
@gureno19
Ай бұрын
@@justinm2697 "but did you dieeee?"
@MargaretCampbell583
Ай бұрын
When I have been down there looking at it the addicts have not played up
@MargaretCampbell583
Ай бұрын
Yes it’s a bit rougher but nothing like it was before. I have not seen the drug dealing when I have been down there
@kizza1645
Ай бұрын
That’s my tax agent! 😂😂😂😂😂
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
Haha! Small world. You've got a great agent Badi was the coolest, I really enjoyed our convo
@andr0oo820
Ай бұрын
Isnt Richmond used to be a big viet area? Or am i thinkin of somewhere else??
@bigjuice5821
Ай бұрын
Yes it is
@tangiers365
Ай бұрын
yes go for a walk down Victoria st towards ikea, great viet and other asian food
@Trip3558
Ай бұрын
and viets love heroin if you didn't know
@MargaretCampbell583
Ай бұрын
I think it has cleaned up the streets
@lancestrickland2092
Ай бұрын
" you chasin' ? "
@2_chili
Ай бұрын
good jurnalism mate
@Lachy12321
Ай бұрын
Great video bloke! very sad to see
@ellisbyrne359
Ай бұрын
wft does East Melbourne have to do with anything, and why is half the video there? If you want to gaslight us into thinking Richmond is not a wasteland at least just walk to Bridge rd
@jeremyblair8106
Ай бұрын
You really think Richmond is a wasteland?? Wow! Just chill
@anonmouse15
Ай бұрын
Matter of relativity. It's no Kabul.
@HLsab
Ай бұрын
Why not put it under the high rise flats ?
@themillykate
Ай бұрын
They put it next door to them.
@MargaretCampbell583
Ай бұрын
I haven’t see the meth addicts there
@tangiers365
Ай бұрын
bro you should be sketched out walking around with a camera when u film people of course theyre not going to like it / wonder why tf you filming anyway
@davidharvey321
Ай бұрын
And those sunglasses too, asking for trouble.
@dickiesdocos
Ай бұрын
He's in public and has every right to film what he sees in public. It's not like he's following and harassing people who don't want to be on camera. If people don't want to be filmed, they can easily walk away and not engage. Furthermore, nearly everywhere we go, we're being filmed through public or private business cameras. A KZitemr walking the street and filming in public is no different, and he certainly shouldn't be stopped from doing it.
@Havingacrack
Ай бұрын
Everyone agrrees we need one but noone wants it near them suck it up people its a part of our community
@tangiers365
Ай бұрын
north richmond IS NOT a suburb bro do some research on my hood, its just richmond
@therealzannonymous
Ай бұрын
Hey man thanks for watching. Will do!
@tangiers365
Ай бұрын
@@therealzannonymous yeah I'll check ur other stuff out
@kimsherlock8969
Ай бұрын
Heroin chooses when she / he wants you to be a slave The chosen / those addicted come from all sorts of backgrounds Wealth can cope with addiction if weaithy they can pay . Poverty cannot afford addiction.
@Havingacrack
Ай бұрын
Business owner talk is tlkn rubbish the rooms are clean and needed if you didnt like the area dont open ya Business there.Drug users are going to use drugs , the govt decided to put it near a school.Think a bit deeper govt knew itd start argument from school so maybe thats thier way out look good to drug users looks good to the people govt cant lose..Support ya local injecting rooms n respect drug users we all got a story
@51m0n77
19 күн бұрын
The war on drugs is over. Drugs won😂
@tree_eats
Ай бұрын
As an editorial note regarding the video title: "Melbournes" should be "Melbourne's".
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