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Personal drug use and possession should be decriminalised, former Supreme Court justice argues
The criminalisation of illicit drugs is causing more harm than good, a prominent former judge has said, calling for criminal offences relating to personal drug possession to be abolished. […]
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Another Young Life Lost at a Music Festival: It’s Time for Pill Testing
Over the coming months, music festivals will face much higher scrutiny than ever before, particularly in light of findings of last year’s coronial inquest. The NSW government remains under increasing pressure to change its current tactics for policing drugs at music festivals, particularly its stance on pill-testing as a harm minimisation measure, which it has steadfastly refused to consider. […]
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2nd Dec 2019 Media Release
Pill Testing Ambassador & Community Service Announcementhttps://mailchi.mp/350223bc99ce/media-announcement-2nd-december-2243025 […]
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11 Nov 2019 Media Release
Families Respond to NSW Coroner’s Report on Festival Deathshttps://mailchi.mp/c8fea066b17c/media-release-11-nov-2231473 […]
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Renewed push for pill-testing in more Australian states following latest festival death
A year-long parliamentary inquiry in Western Australia has recommended that pill-testing be introduced in the state and sniffer dogs be dispensed with. It follows a similar call in New South Wales in spring and current pushes in Victoria and Tasmania. This weekend marked serious alarm as summer kicked off with one death and numerous overdoses in festivals along the East…
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Festival regulations could turn Victoria into the next NSW
There is an unfair expectation on music festivals to go beyond what any police force or government have been able to do and stamp out drugs. And yet authorities refuse to listen to the evidence and expertise of the nation’s health bodies, the NSW coroner, the many parents of those who have died, and recently the City of Melbourne. […]
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Frontline doctors urge Premier to trial pill testing, end strip searches for drugs
More than 20 heads of department at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital have urged the Premier to scrap strip-searching and adopt a pill-testing trial amid an anecdotal rise in the number of panic ingestions at music festivals. The unprecedented appeal from senior staff at the frontline hospital for drug and alcohol emergency admissions follows a recent incident in which a teenage…
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Premier, please help us save young lives: a plea from 27 doctors for pill testing
From our experience, we believe pill testing at festivals has the added advantage of bringing a young person face-to-face with a trained counsellor before they ingest the drug. Evidence to the coroner demonstrated that none of the young people had ever spoken with an expert about the risks of MDMA or the potential danger of mixing drugs and alcohol. […]
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Peak Bodies Supporting Pill Testing
A list that Harm Reduction Australia & Pill Testing Australia put together of just some of the national peak bodies that are publicly supporting the introduction of pill testing in Australia Australian-Peak-Bodies-Supporting-Pill-TestingDownload […]
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Greens leader Shane Rattenbury rues ‘missed opportunity’ with no pill testing planned for Spilt Milk
The lack of pill testing at this weekend’s Spilt Milk festival is a “real missed opportunity” according to ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury who wants to see the political barriers to pill testing removed. He repeated calls for a permanent pill testing site in Canberra which was rejected by government. […]