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'Ineffective, inaccurate': strip searches in spotlight

Police drug-detection tactics involving strip searches and sniffer dogs are being questioned as data shows they rarely lead to illicit substances being found.

AAP · Jul 28, 2025

Afternoon Update: Australia backs UN Palestine resolution; CBA pauses $3 withdrawal fee; and an icy pole taste test

The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades

The Guardian - AU · Dec 4, 2024

Pill testing trial formally on offer after deaths

Two organisations have made a formal offer to the Victorian government to host a free pill testing trial at a festival this summer.

AAP · Nov 14, 2023

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ACT government backs return of pill testing for Canberra festivals

Plans to expand opening hours for city-centre pill testing centre.

The Canberra Times · Oct 4, 2023

Hope of pill testing return for Spilt Milk festival

Negotiations in final stages for pill testing to return at Canberra festivals.

The Canberra Times · Oct 2, 2023

'Nothing we can do': Why festival pill testing ended

Insurers are refusing to cover festival pill testing, and the ACT government can't do anything about it.

The Canberra Times · Jan 22, 2023

Fentanyl seizure: experts warn potent drug could rapidly emerge as a problem in Australia

Experts say news of record haul of more than 11kg of the opioid drug, found in February, should have been announced sooner

The Guardian - AU · Aug 22, 2022

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NICE: In An Aussie First, A Fixed Pill Testing Site’s Being Trialled In Canberra From July

Now let's see harm reduction initiatives everywhere.

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 25, 2022

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