Pill Testing
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Gladys Berejiklian and the NSW Government have finally revealed their list of what festivals they deem as ‘high risk’, and will thereby be under the most scrutiny under the harsh new licensing regulations that are set to take place next month. The festivals placed in this category are Laneway, FOMO, This That, Lost Paradise, Days […]
As the music community’s war with the NSW Government and Premier Gladys Berejiklian over the harsh restrictions and regulations placed on festivals heats up, comedy legend Conan O’Brien has weighed in on Sydney’s lockout laws and he is not impressed. While performing his one-off Australian show at Sydney’s State Theatre last night, O’Brien reportedly criticised […]
Yesterday, every major music organisation in the state of NSW banded together in an attempt to parlay with the state government, with reps from the Australian Festival Association, Live Performance Australia, Music NSW, APRA AMCOS and the Live Music Office booking in a meeting with the Premier’s Department hoping to chat about ways they can […]
Late last year, Australia’s major festivals banded together to form the Australian Festival Association, an Avengers-like supergroup uniting to do battle against the evil forces of the NSW Government, its Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her complete condemnation of pill-testing and overall harsh proposed changes to music festival licensing. Now, an even bigger supergroup consisting of not […]
Groovin The Moo Canberra will host its second annual pill-testing trial after the ACT Government gave the move a big thumbs up. As the ABC reports, the Nat Cap’s leg of the regional festie will host the Pill Testing Australia team once again on April 28th, trialling the drug harm reduction strategy one year on […]
It’s a saga that’s as ongoing as it is tiresome, but now NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the state government have released a statement saying that their widely criticised – and confusing – new music festival regulations are indeed confusing. The risk assessment, which comes into play on March 1, proposes that festivals will have […]
Northlane guitarist Josh Smith has ripped the NSW Liberal Party and their so-called “war on music festivals” a new one, backing calls by Peking Duk for punters to turf the nanny state ringleaders from government when they hit the polling booths this March. Though the metalcore riffmaker rarely uses his social platforms to get political, […]
The music community is firing back full force against NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the state government, following what some festivals have called a “war on festivals”, and now there’s a rally being held so you can demand change if you feel like it too. Don’t Kill Live Music is an initiative that has tons of […]
More members of the NSW music industry are rising up to condemn the state liberal government’s so-called “war on music festivals”, with newly formed national festival supergroup the Australian Festival Association (AFA) and Live Performance Australia both adding their voices to the surging chorus . If you need a quick refresher, Premier Gladys Berejiklian is about […]
Peking Duk are certainly not pulling any punches when it comes to letting their feelings known about Mountain Sounds’ seemingly sudden cancellation, releasing a pretty scathing post on Facebook calling for fans to vote out Gladys Berejiklian and the Liberal party. In a long post, the boys wrote “it breaks our heart to say the […]
