Cameron Murphy has split with premier Chris Minns over pill testing,saying an urgent trial over the summer festival season could save lives.
Jennie Ross-King,the mother of music festival reveller Alex Ross-King,is launching a social media blitz urging parents to talk to their children about drug use.
The review comes as the Berejiklian government announced the roll-out of drug amnesty bins at music festivals,in a move harm reduction experts said would have little-to-no impact on drug risks.
An emergency doctor has warned more Queensland festival revellers could fall victim to deadly drugs masked as party pills.
"Let's not pretend that pill testing would have saved these lives,"NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday.
The senior experts from Sydney's frontline hospital for drug and alcohol admissions said the Premier should look at the evidence.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said suggestions his officers contributed to deaths at music festivals would be"strongly defended"after a coroner called for a major roll-back of police powers.
Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said any suggestion his officers contributed to the deaths of six revellers will be"strongly defended by me."
Coroner Harriet Grahame said there was sound evidence policing methods at music festivals was a"harmful intervention".
As a coroner prepares to release her findings into the deaths of six young music festival-goers,one mother readies herself to become an advocate for change.
I can’t walk into a bathroom at a nightclub these days without seeing a line for the cubicles that extends past two empty urinals.