Pill Testing
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Looks like NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s harsh come down on the state’s music festivals are about to claim another victim, with Central Coast festival Mountain Sounds reportedly set to the cancel 2019’s event just days from when it was supposed to start. As reported by The Industry Observer, sources close to the festival have said the […]
The fiery debate around pill testing and music festivals in NSW rages on, and now it has claimed another victim: longstanding Blue Mountains festival Psyfari. 2019 would’ve marked the festival’s 10th anniversary and, according to them, the “grand finale” but they have had to cancel the event due to “the current political climate surrounding festivals […]
As the pill testing debate continues to rage on throughout the country, Rainbow Serpent Festival has called out the government’s inaction on the matter as the reason why drug-related deaths at festivals keep happening. Festival spokesperson Tim Harvey told ABC Radio yesterday that the festival is a “microcosm of what is going on in the […]
Two young men were left fighting for life in hospital after attending a dance party in Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday. The men, aged 22 and 24, were taken to Westmead Hospital from the Hardcore Til I Die event in critical conditions, but have thankfully since been stabilised. A man is 20’s was also taken […]
The quantity of drugs consumed by five young people who died following recent music festivals in New South Wales appears to have been “very different”, a court has heard. The inquest into the deaths of the five people following summer music festivals held its first preliminary hearing at Glebe Coroner’s Court on Monday. As BuzzFeed […]
Music festivals in New South Wales are facing strict new licensing laws, due to a push for “high safety standards” following the deaths of five people at recent local events. From 1st March, festival organisers will need to apply for a specific liquor license, similar to those for pubs and clubs, for each music festival […]
As the debate around pill testing gets exceedingly more prominent in both the government and the music community, hundreds gathered in Sydney yesterday to rally for pill testing and urge NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to change her stance on the matter. The rally included speakers like federal Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale and former […]
Following the death of 19-year-old Alex Ross-King at Sydney’s FOMO Festival last weekend, the debate around pill testing has reached a fever pitch and now a top body of doctors have weighed in with their professional opinion. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have put the call out for pill testing at festivals, saying […]
The Ultra Australia dance music festival has launched a push to hold a pill testing trial at its upcoming Sydney event in February, following five deaths at Australian festivals in the last six months. Ultra has joined forces with Pill Testing Australia (formerly STA-SAFE) and the NSW Users And AIDS Association (NUAA) to request the […]
Victoria’s long-running Rainbow Serpent music festival has called on state and territory governments to “untie the hands of promoters” and allow festival organisers to offer pill testing services at Australian events. In a video message released this week, Rainbow Serpent organiser Tim Harvey says, “If we are to stop these horrific tragedies from happening, we […]
