This proposal has two components to establish medically supervised injecting centres.

• Component 1: Fund a scoping study to determine the areas of greatest need, and suitable locations and services for new medically supervised injecting centres in Australian capital cities.
• Component 2: Establish one new medically supervised injecting centre in each capital city in the following financial years:
  • 2020-21: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin
  • 2021-22: Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Hobart.

The centres would be funded on an ongoing basis, and would be closely based on the existing Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre including the number of hours of operation, staffing, services offered and size.