Fight over the right to party at Edinburgh Gardens as council mulls alcohol ban

By Rachel Eddie
Photo credit: Luis Enrique Ascui
Fitzroy North locals are fighting to stop an alcohol ban at the popular Edinburgh Gardens, after neighbours complained of drug use, overflowing rubbish and faeces in the streets.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten on Thursday threw her support behind a community campaign to keep the park open, calling on the state government to help pay for toilets and other infrastructure because the gardens are so widely used by people from across the city…
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