Festivals and pills: To test or not to test

Adrianna Buccianti

Source: SBS

SBS News In Depth
View Podcast Series
Download the SBS Audio appAvailable on iOS and Android

Two deaths at a music festival over the weekend have reignited debate around the controversial practice of pill-testing, trialled earlier at a festival in Canberra.

Share

Latest podcast episodes

Families pointing to their names at the National Museum's Welcome Wall (SBS).png
Associate Professor Bassina Farbenblum (Supplied).jpg
Miner starts the descent in one of the tunnels with little to no safety equioment, most don’t even use a harness (Supplied, David Tiago Barbosa).jpg
Lisa Fox and her newborn.

Recommended for you

A small jetty extends into a lake, with a boat tied up on its side. In the distance, low clouds engulf wooded hills.
Woman shopping for groceries in a well-stocked supermarket.
A picture of people at Kabul airport
Group of gold necklaces, rings and gold bars on red leather background
Rear view of woman wearing hijab walking in crowd of people, background with copy space
A woman in an aqua blue blazer is speaking in the Senate.
An illustration depicts a distressed woman looking at her phone, surrounded by a “For Sale“ sign and a house, money, two people riding a motorcycle, and a young boy and a man playing soccer.
Collage showing a refugee camp, a border officer, airplane passengers, and planes on a runway.

Get SBS News daily and direct to your Inbox

Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to SBS’s terms of service and privacy policy including receiving email updates from SBS.

Follow SBS News
facebook
X (Twitter)
instagram
youtube
tiktok
rss
Download our apps
SBS News
iOSAndroid
SBS Audio
iOSAndroid
SBS On Demand
iOSAndroid
Listen to our podcasts
SBS News Update
An overview of the day's top stories from SBS News
SBS News In Depth
Interviews and feature reports from SBS News
SBS On the Money
Your daily ten minute finance and business news wrap with SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves.
SBS News in Easy English
A daily five minute news wrap for English learners and people with disability
Get the latest with our News podcasts on your favourite podcast apps.
Watch on SBS
SBS World News

SBS World News

Take a global view with Australia's most comprehensive world news service
Watch nowOn Demand
Watch the latest news videos from Australia and across the world