Queensland showdown looms over pill-testing clinic’s plan to reopen with private funds

Queensland deputy premier Jarrod Bleijie says of pill testing: ‘We do not tolerate it. We will not allow it and we will legislate or regulate against those private providers.’ Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

The Queensland government is set for a showdown over its objections to a plan to reopen a pill testing clinic in Brisbane with private funding.

The Loop Australia – which operated the CheQpoint clinic in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane’s inner north, with public money until April – has announced a plan to reopen on Friday after it received a private donation.