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Music lovers have descended on Canberra for the Spilt Milk music festival Post Malone, Lime Cordiale and Peach PRC are some of those performing across five stages.

The Spilt Milk music festival will have free pill testing available on site for the first time in Australia since 2019.

While Labor Premier Chris Minns has announced a new depenalisation scheme, he has pulled back from Labor's bolder decriminalisation ideas floated before the election. Paul Gregoire reports.  

Canberra's Groovin the Moo was the first Australian festival to offer pill-testing, but the service is likely to be scrapped at this year's event due to skyrocketing insurance premiums.

Organisers say the centre is a ‘real watershed’ moment and will open two nights a week from 19 July

Groovin the Moo, the country's first festival to provide free pill testing to punters, will no longer have the service on site.

Photo: Pixabay New Zealand health minister Andrew Little announced on April 9 that the 12-month-long interim laws permitting legal pill testing at festivals will be made permanent as the services have been making a positive impact. Passed in December, the  Drug and Substance Checking Legislation Act 2020 permits appointed service providers to test any drug an individual presents at an event, as well as provide them with information about its contents and advise them on the potential harms. ...

Photo: Pixabay New Zealand health minister Andrew Little announced on April 9 that the 12-month-long interim laws permitting legal pill testing at festivals will be made permanent as the services have been making a positive impact. Passed in December, the  Drug and Substance Checking Legislation Act 2020 permits appointed service providers to test any drug an individual presents at an event, as well as provide them with information about its contents and advise them on the potential harms. ...