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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-10-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Music Festival Pill Testing</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Music Festival Pill Testing</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-10-17">
            <name>Music Festival Pill Testing</name>
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        </questions>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4363">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>(15 May 2019).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-10-17">
            <name>Music Festival Pill Testing</name>
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          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I am aware that:</inserted>
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        <page num="4713" />
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          <inserted>Pill testing trials took place in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) at the Groovin the Moo festival held in Canberra in April 2018 and April 2019.</inserted>
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          <inserted>I am advised that the ACT government intends to independently evaluate the second pill testing trial.</inserted>
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          <inserted>I have also been advised that there was no significant increase in drug-related health incidents aligned to the Groovin the Moo event in South Australia this year.</inserted>
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        <text id="20191017a82f0f7627334eaa80001298">
          <inserted>No other Australian jurisdictions have indicated they plan to introduce pill testing at music events.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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