Tina Turner: Farewell to an Icon
GALLERY: Simply the Best … Music icon Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. Here’s a look back at one of rock’s most famous voices in pictures.
GALLERY: Simply the Best … Music icon Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. Here’s a look back at one of rock’s most famous voices in pictures.
Three men have faced court following one of the biggest MDMA busts in Australian history with more than one tonne of the party drug seized. It is estimated the shipment would have made more than three million pills.
Almost 2000 MDMA capsules have allegedly been found on party goers at a music festival in Sydney’s west. One man alone, a teen wedding DJ, is charged with carrying 1005 in his underwear and pants.
A New Year’s Eve music festival held in Sydney will be the first in NSW to feature drug “amnesty bins” with attendees assured they will able to use the bins without the fear of being arrested or monitored.
An Australian artist who created a portrait of overdose victim Anna Wood using 20,000 empty pill casings has been flooded with personal stories from young people who have lost friends, siblings and parents to drugs.
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The high school sweethearts had just broken up when Alex made a fatal decision. The devastating impact is still being felt almost a year on.
The NSW government has responded to the deputy coroner’s inquiry findings into music festival drug deaths by committing to introducing penalty-free drug bins, but firmly “closed the door” on pill testing.
Even detectives from the NSW Organised Crime Squad who arrived at Aleksija Vracar’s western Sydney home to question her over an alleged plot to import drugs were shocked by what they found inside.
A bag emblazoned with popular children’s cartoon character Peppa Pig was full of drugs as police arrested six men, including a bikie, as part of a major drugs operation that also netted more than $200,000 in cash.
Drug policy debates have a habit of becoming less about public health and more about personal morality. When it comes to preventing drug-related deaths at music festivals, it’s time to put your prejudices aside and get realistic, writes Jarryd Bartle
Police Minister David Elliott has backed a push to introduce “amnesty bins” at music festivals, revealing his work with St John Ambulance at dance parties had exposed him to the rampant drugs culture.
Evidence has piled up for years of the harms of illicit drugs, from pill deaths at dance festivals to longitudinal studies establishing the risks of marijuana-induced psychosis, especially in adolescent brains, writes Miranda Devine.
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A 24-year-old who died from a suspected overdose at Strawberry Fields music festival in NSW has been remembered as “sweet and funny” man as police reveal 96 were arrested at the event for drug offences.
It is stomach-churning work but could pave the way for contentious pill testing at future music festivals. Researcher Jonathan Brett has already made several surprise findings while testing wastewater collected from portaloos.
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He is known for this hardline opposition to pill testing. But NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller tells The Ripple Effect he is ready to explore other options to stem the alarming rise of overdose deaths at music festivals.
One of four people arrested for supplying drugs at Sydney’s Festival X (pictured centre) allegedly had 19 red capsules and $7110 in allegedly stolen cash on him, a court was told today.
Stefan Woodward died four years ago from pure MDMA at a musical festival. His mother Julie has opened up on why she believes pill testing isn’t the answer in this debate on saving lives.
A man has died at the Strawberry Fields Music Festival at Tocumwal in the NSW Riverina region today. The 24-year-old, believed to be a Victorian, is thought to have consumed multiple substances including GHB, MDMA and cocaine.
Emergency medical teams can quite literally be the difference between life and death for people overdosing on MDMA and other drugs. The Ripple Effect was granted exclusive access to doctors on the frontline.
Hindsight can be both a wonderful and cruel thing. But for two grieving mothers it’s the wish of knowing then what they know now about MDMA and its impact that continues to haunt them following the deaths of their children.
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A leading criminal solicitor is urging people to consider the far-reaching effects of popping a few pills at a music festival. If you’re lucky enough not to die, you could wind up with a criminal conviction that destroys your life anyway.
Another inner city council will vote whether to support pill testing at music festivals and events but the Andrews Government and Victoria Police still oppose such a move.
A 23-year-old French national Louis Bernard Germain faces drug charges after he was flagged by a police dog while queuing in a line at the Greenwood Hotel.
As the nation prepares for another dangerous summer of musical festivals and drug taking, it’s time for people to listen to what those on the frontline have to say, writes paramedic Paul Spinks.
The Greens have proposed a radical plan to introduce a two-year trial of pill testing at Victorian festivals, which would cost the government a pretty penny.
Shouting ‘no’ to pill users and pill testing is beyond negligent — people are still dying at festivals. It’s time our politicians stopped pretending and supported harm minimisation, writes Tory Shepherd.
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