Dashville, a campground and events site on the Johnston family property, is the venue for two licensed music festivals annually, where the crowds are capped at 2,000.
It was inspired 15 years ago by the Falls Festival and Meredith Music Festival, which combined live music with camping weekends. "I was about 18 or 19, and experiencing that, and I'd been going to Bluesfest [in Byron Bay] since I was about 15," Mr Johnston said."There's 40 bands and they're all different bands … a lot of different genres," Mr Johnston said.
"[We] make it inclusive, and give everybody a slice of content that they might not be aware of, so that then they could make their own mind up about what they like."Mr Johnston said by targeting music festivals the Government could potentially stifle creative industries which derived income from live performances.
"Anybody who enjoys music would understand how important festivals are these days to the music industry," he said.
Use your drugs responsibility
Cmon ABC News! This is not worth anybody’s time of day. Nobody cares what this drug-addled hipster thinks or says.
So now it is an invasion of civil liberties to be prevented from breaking the law.
Yes people do have a right to kill themselves, just like they can drink themselves to death deliberately. But not by using illegal drugs. On a related note we had a big festival up the road at Willowbank the other day and not a single person died. Why is that?