A Queensland health official is travelling to the ACT to examine the territory’s pill testing trial with the potential to introduce tougher penalties after two deaths from a suspected overdose at a music festival on Easter Monday.
After a 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman died at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival south of Toowoomba, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said she will consider the outcomes of the ACT pill testing trial while Health Committee chairman Aaron Harper travels to the location to investigate.
Ms Palaszczuk says the government are waiting for the outcome of the trial, and harm-reduction measures and tougher enforcement are both being considered as options.