'Drop the pretence':Festival goers are old enough to say no to drugs
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'Drop the pretence':Festival goers are old enough to say no to drugs

Pill testing supporters frame adolescents and young adults as disempowered subjects who lack the capacity to make rational decisions. It's wrong.

  • byXavier Symons

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Enough evidence to support introduction of pill testing in NSW,inquiry told

Enough evidence to support introduction of pill testing in NSW,inquiry told

A world expert on drug policy says pill testing works - by reducing supply,demand and the harms associated with taking ecstasy.

  • byJulie Power
Pill testing community divided over best approach

Pill testing community divided over best approach

A divide in the pill testing world has emerged after .

  • byHelen Pitt
Former WA premier Geoff Gallop appointed to drug reform think tank

Former WA premier Geoff Gallop appointed to drug reform think tank

Former West Australian premier Geoff Gallop says he will be"knocking on the door of governments"in his push for drug decriminalisation.

  • byAngus Thompson
'Record amount'of drugs seized at Splendour in the Grass

'Record amount'of drugs seized at Splendour in the Grass

More than 200 people,including a man carrying over 200 MDMA tablets,were charged with drug offences during the four-day operation at the music festival.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
Queensland politicians snub Splendour pill-testing demonstration

Queensland politicians snub Splendour pill-testing demonstration

A pill testing demonstration is being conducted for the coroner investigating the festival death of 22-year-old Brisbane man,Joshua Tam,and five others.

  • byLydia Lynch
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Pill-testing'would send wrong message',LNP convention hears

Pill-testing'would send wrong message',LNP convention hears

LNP members had pushed for a review of pill testing to be introduced in Queensland,following the deaths of young people at festivals.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
Melbourne woman took cap and pink and white pill before death:Inquest

Melbourne woman took cap and pink and white pill before death:Inquest

Melbourne woman Diana Nguyen's pill death is being probed by a NSW inquest into a string of festival deaths.

  • byAngus Thompson andRachel Eddie
There's only one way to tackle drugs to make Australia safer

There's only one way to tackle drugs to make Australia safer

I’ve spent the last four years reporting in countries being destroyed by the war on drugs and the solution is clear.

  • byAntony Loewenstein
Festival overdose victim scared of being caught by police,inquest hears

Festival overdose victim scared of being caught by police,inquest hears

MDMA was the causal factor in each of six deaths being examined by a coronial inquest that began on Monday.

  • byAngus Thompson
Liberal Party Pride group pushes for pill-testing in Victoria

Liberal Party Pride group pushes for pill-testing in Victoria

A fresh attempt to introduce pill-testing has emerged within the Liberal Party,which is set to debate the controversial topic at its state council meeting.

  • byBenjamin Preiss