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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is standing firm on her opposition to pill testing, despite drug experts arguing the issue cannot be ignored any longer.

 

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NSW Premier dismisses renewed calls for pill testing | Sky News AustraliaThe family of a young woman who died of a suspected drug overdose after attending a music festival in Sydney's west have urged the NSW government to reconsider pill testing.\n\nThe 19-year-old suffered a suspected fatal overdose after attending the FOMO festival in Parramatta on Saturday.\n\nThe young woman's grandmother says Gladys Berejiklian should look into pill testing, saying it's a small thing to do.\n\nNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is refusing to consider trailing pill testing, saying she fears it would encourage drug use.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n If a person is stupid to take drugs, the person deserves to die. It is Nature's way of culling the idiots out of the human race. Parenting is hard So we have lost the war on drugs and now must pander to drug addicts.
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Royal Australasian College of Physicians calls for festival pill testing | Sky News AustraliaA leading Australian doctor group, representing more than 17,000 physicians and paediatricians, has supported pill testing in an open letter to the New South Wales Premier.\n\nThe Royal Australasian College of Physicians is urging Gladys Berejiklian to adopt the front-line protection against drugs at music festivals to prevent more people dying to fatal concoctions.\n\nNSW Opposition Leader Michael Daley says he will introduce pill testing, provided it is recommended at a national drug summit he plans to host if elected. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
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Rally calling for pill testing to be held in Sydney | Sky News AustraliaA rally will be held in Sydney on Saturday with the public demanding the introduction of pill testing at music festivals in NSW.\n\nIt follows the Royal Australasian College of Physicians calling for pill testing in an open letter to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThere have been five deaths at music festivals in the state in four months.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n drkerrynphelps Si what killed those people at the festival? drkerrynphelps It is not a medical issue. SayNoToDrugs drkerrynphelps Really - I know several GP's who do not agree with it. Not sure you speak for the nation Dr Phelps.
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Large crowds pressure NSW Premier to introduce pill test | Sky News AustraliaLarge crowds have taken to the streets of Sydney demanding New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian introduce pill testing at festivals after a string of deaths. \n\nThe thousand-strong rally began at Town Hall before making its way to Hyde Park.\n\nAcross the state, five people have died from suspected drug overdoses at music festivals in the last four months. \n\nMs Berejiklian says pill testing would only encourage drug use. \n\nImage: supplied \u002F News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n thegreatunwashed Let's buy more illegal drugs now cause the government will now check if they are safe to take right? LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder ! Mob rule ! I don't think so.
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Pill testing can ‘save lives’ | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Advocates are urging for the NSW government to adopt pill testing services at music festivals after a man died at a Sydney dance party overnight.\n\nAuthorities are urging young people to refrain from taking drugs after a 19-year-old man died from a suspected overdose after attending the 'Knockout Games of Destiny Dance Party' in Homebush.\n\nTwo women and a man remain in critical condition after being taken to Westmead Hospitam while five people have been charged with drug supply offences.\n\nPresident Harm Reduction Australia Gino Vumbaca has told Sky News the tragedy shows the need for a national pill testing service to be rolled out.\n\nHe says research overseas has shown giving partygoers information about the drug they are planning to take can ‘save lives.’\n SayNoToDrugs No. There is no safe level. One method is for those people not to take illegal drugs. Problem solved. But no, they still choose drugs. NoPillTesting NaturalSelection Next they will be campaigning to give away free pills a music festivals.
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MPs join crowds in Sydney pill testing rally | Sky News AustraliaLarge crowds have taken to the streets of Sydney calling for New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian to introduce pill testing at festivals following a number of suspected drug overdoses.\n\nGreens leader Richard Di Natale addressed the crowds along with independent MP Kerryn Phelps and Greens MP David Shoebridge, urging the Premier to 'get out of the way' on pill testing.\n\nThe rally comes amid the state's government introduces tough new music festival regulations, which will require events to meet minimum safety standards from March 1.\n\nMs Berejiklian has dismissed public outcry, insisting pill tesing would only encourage drug use.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Greens RichardDiNatale drkerrynphelps ShoebridgeMLC As long as the user pays. Do it. Greens RichardDiNatale drkerrynphelps ShoebridgeMLC How about No to using drugs Di Nutjob? Greens RichardDiNatale drkerrynphelps ShoebridgeMLC Let these people be responsible for drug overdoses, like this lot being responsible for the deaths of boat people.
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Andrews govt facing pressure to green light pill testing | Sky News AustraliaAn inner-city Melbourne council is putting pressure on the Andrews government after it signalled intent to run Victoria’s first pill testing trial at a music festival in Port Phillip. \n\nThe call comes after six people died from suspected drug overdoses at Australian music festivals in the past five months. \n\n\n\n\n\n No. No matter what there is, there will always be some people who will take illegal drugs. This has happened for hundreds of years. Natural selection is okay. NoPillTesting Bet they won’t be able to sue the council when someone dies from a “tested” pill. Let them run it, as long as it's their money, not tax payers.
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Renewed push for pill testing after teen girl dies at music festival | Sky News AustraliaThe woman who died from a suspected drug overdose at a Sydney music festival at the weekend has been identified as 19-year-old Alex Ross-King. \n\nMs Ross-King was at FOMO music festival in Parramatta, Sydney’s west on Saturday, when she was rushed to Westmead Hospital and later died. \n\nThe teenager’s family is now calling on the New South Wales government to consider pill testing at music festivals. \n\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian has not supported the move however, saying ‘I worry pill testing could have the opposite effect’ and ‘we need to keep sending out the strongest message that taking these illicit drugs kills’. \n\n\n\n\n\n I've got a bizarre, simpler, more cost effective solution. Just make the drugs legal so the entire supply chain will be run by corporate citizens vested in the success of society, instead of criminal gangs vested in the destruction of society. Forget the testing and start arresting some of these drug user and pushes. Can someone please explain what pill testing is and how it would work at a music festival?
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PM refuses to weigh in on pill testing debate | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to weigh in on the controversial pill testing debate despite another suspected drug overdose at a music festival in Sydney at the weekend. \n\nThe family of 19-year-old Alex Ross-King, who died after FOMO music festival, is putting pressure on the government to trial pill testing after the loss of their daughter on Saturday. \n\nMr Morrison says it is 'a very difficult issue and there are no simple answers', but has refused to comment on trials arguing it is a state, not federal government issue. \n\n\n\n WeAreTheLoopUK Moronscum is in denial. this girl would not have been the only one to take that pill, but her body reacted to it, dozens of others didnt.The point is pill testing cannot eliminate every persons chemistry makeup or what else they may have taken. Pill testing is not the answer, education & common sense is
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