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Time for clear thinking on party pills
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is right to take seriously the tragic deaths of a 21-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man after taking apparently tainted recreational drugs at the Defqon.1 music festival in Penrith over the weekend.
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