In almost every recent Victorian election, we have seen the Labor dirt unit roll out several old chestnuts about the Greens' ''extreme'' policies. And boy, do they love to tell voters that the Greens-backed position on medically supervised injecting rooms is an extreme policy.

What Labor doesn't tell say is the policy was once its own. It went to the 1999 election promising to set up a heroin injecting facility. The idea was shelved once the Bracks government came to power.

Like the morning after a big party, government can be quite sobering.

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