Almost eight years after the summer of 2018-19 where six young people tragically lost their lives to drug overdoses at NSW music festivals, the announcement today that the Minns Government will provide pill testing services at music festivals permanently is welcome but long overdue, Greens MP and drug harm reduction...
Greens MP and drug law reform & harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann is calling on the Minns Government to make drug checking at music festivals permanent and expand it into other sites in the community following the release of the New South Wales Music Festival Drug Checking Trial: Final Report
The Minns Government’s gaming reform package announced today fails the test when it comes to genuine poker machine reform: tackling money laundering and reducing the skyrocketing and increasing rates at which people are losing money to poker machines in NSW, says Greens MP and gambling harm minimisation spokesperson Cate Faehrmann.
The 24 Hour Economy Commissioner, Mike Rodrigues, must step in and throw his and his agency’s resources behind the organisers of Divine Playhouse to find them another venue after they were forced to close as a result of a vicious and coordinated campaign by far-right religious extremists.
