Chorus for pill testing grows – The World Today ABC RN – audio

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Hosted by Eleanor Hall, report by Caroline Winter. Featuring Cate Faehrmann, Fiona Patten, Victorian Reason Party.

 

There’s a growing chorus, calling for the introduction of pill testing at music festivals. One state MP is so frustrated that it hasn’t been brought in, she’s opened up about taking drugs, to encourage politicians to be more honest in the drug debate.

 

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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