Pill Testing
Shane Rattenbury admits to taking MDMA in calls for NSW pill testing
The ACT Minister for Justice said he tried the drug once and didn't like the effect, but it was common for people to experiment.
- by Jasper Lindell
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Drugs
'We are not giving them any false reassurance': Busting the myths of pill testing
An emergency medicine specialist and a harm reduction volunteer explain how it all works.
- by Rachel Clun
Music festivals
'You will not be reported to the police': state's plan to protect revellers at festivals
The NSW government will deploy new harm minimisation strategies at three Sydney music festivals this weekend. They won't include pill testing.
- by Kate Aubusson, Angus Thompson & Rachel Clun
Courts
Music festival inquest may investigate more deaths
One tragic reveller had consumed up to nine pills of 77 per cent purity, the Coroners Court heard.
- by Angus Thompson
Music festivals
Experts divided over on-the-spot drug possession fines at music festivals
On-the-spot fines for drug possession at music festivals will come into effect this weekend.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Opinion
Opinion
I'm 'coming out' about drugs: it's time get real about pill testing
As a politician I’ve made the difficult decision to ''come out'' about drugs because the government’s zero-tolerance approach been a catastrophic failure.
- by Cate Faehrmann
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Music festivals
Greens MP admits to drug use in a bid to bring 'honesty' to pill testing debate
People from all walks of life including "journalists, tradies, lawyers, public servants, doctors, police and yes, politicians" use drugs, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
opinion
Opinion
The 'unwinnable war on drugs': introduce pill testing now
How do we ask another festival-goer to die for want of instituting the very policy advocated by most of those on the front-line – the police, doctors, and emergency workers?
- by Peter FitzSimons
Gladys Berejiklian
'Enough of the politics': Pill testing supporters rally in Sydney
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sydney calling on Gladys Berejiklian to soften her hardline stance on drugs and introduce pill testing at dance festivals.
- by Helen Pitt & Laura Chung
Gladys Berejiklian
'Evidence backs pill testing trials': physicians tell Berejiklian
Australia's peak body for physicians has called on premier Gladys Berejiklian to introduce trials at music festivals to save lives.
- by Kate Aubusson
Drug reform
Drug arrests made in ongoing FOMO festival death investigation
Two men have been charged after police started investigating the death of Central Coast teen Alex Ross-King for the coroner.
- by Rachel Clun