Both states are set to offer a pill testing service at a number of festivals over the next 12 months, with the scheme set to debut in Victoria in a few days' time.
Victoria Police says there won't be drug detection dogs at the state's first music festival to trial pill testing, but the force in NSW hasn't ruled it out. The three-day Beyond the Valley music festival, set to be held in western Victoria over the New Year period, will see the debut festival appearance for pill testing in the state.
In the Victorian Parliament's last sitting week of the year, upper house Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell said she hoped the chamber would debate a motion to end the use of drug detection dogs at festivals early in 2025. She has said "let the doggies be doggies" and that the use of sniffer dogs is "counterproductive".
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