examined the deaths of Sydneysiders Nathan Tran, Joseph Pham and Callum Brosnan, Melbourne student Diana Nguyen, Brisbane teaching student Joshua Tam and Central Coast teen Alex Ross-King.
All were aged under 24, and took multiple MDMA capsules the day they attended NSW music festivals in the 13 months to January 2019. Mr Tam died of complications of MDMA use, Mr Brosnan died of mixed drug toxicity and the rest died of MDMA overdoses.But Ms Berejiklian said festival-goers need to take responsibility for themselves, and again urged people not to take drugs."Don't take those pills, that's the strongest message we can take to everybody," she said.
"We're doing everything we can to keep those festivals safe. There is an element of personal responsibility." NSW Police minister, David Elliot, backed the amnesty plan, saying: "Amnesty bins give an opportunity for people that have made a bad decision turn it into a good decision.NSW Health minister Brad Hazzard said he was satisfied the industry was working well with the government and said he believed music festivals were becoming safer.Amnesty bins would be placed at the entrances to festivals, where police carry out checks.
The Amnesty bins only work if you have ‘Pill testing’ in place for drugs identified as dangerous. This moronic backward thinking ‘just say no to drugs’ government are far more dangerous than the vast majority of drugs in festival goers pockets.
OK, so ppl were complaining that drug takers were dying due to taking all their drugs at once because they were afraid of the dog squad etc - now the Govt is saying, it's ok, you don't have to take them all at once and die, if you throw them out you won't be searched or charged.
Dont bother with amnesty bins: save your money and do not buy the pills in the first place. And donate the money to bush fire victims.
Throw away the drugs you just bought?
What a complete joke. Laughing stock Sydney is 🙈
Dial a bin!
It won't work , who in their right mind is going to throw away money like that , other then the government that is ?
Yeah, that'll work.
Can we have a larger bin for NSW police who perform body searches on minors ... ?
Governments have foolishly allowed and encouraged illegal drugs' use. Now have no clue how to stop people from indulging in the stuff and killing themselves. People do have choice to not use.
Someone is gonna steal that bin
that makes it easy for the nswpolice to pick them up and re-sell them. fuller does not like his folk having to break a sweat when 'supplementing' their income
A new level of stupid
Great idea dimwits. I regularly throw away things I’ve just payed for.
Great idea. I can just see the younger ones paying good money just to bring them to a rave and throw them in the bin 🤪
Well GladysB , that👏won’t👏solve👏shit👏
Who gets the bins or are they shared at the governments Xmas party
Can they throw drug dealers in the bin too?
and the silly druggies will still kill themselves.
Why would they do that. They attend a drug festival not a a music festival. It’s virtue-signalling nonsense.
Why in hell would they throw them away when they have paid money for them? Have these decision makers ever DONE drugs or know anything about them?
Ahh priorities. Junkies first then the country burning to ash second. Let them OD. Dont waste the medical resources on them. They are responsible for their actions including taking illegal drugs. Selfish pricks.
There would be no deaths if no one took them. Their choice to spin the roulette wheel of death and take them
Crazy druggies.
Arsonists are burning the place down, and the lefty liberals are worried about idiots overdosing to have fun, at music festivals. NSW has really gone to the dogs. This government is a total disgrace.