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A hardline stance on drugs might be put on hold for schoolies by the new Queensland government, with the premier baulking at an immediate pill-testing ban. Pill testing at the popular end-of-year event on the Gold Coast was to be rolled out at a cost of $80,000 by the former Labor government.
Medical body urges new premier not to scrap plans for pill testing. But the LNP government said it would ditch the scheme if elected. After ending Labor’s nine-year reign at the election on Saturday, Premier David Crisafulli said he would await advice on a pill-testing ban with the schoolies event just weeks away. But the premier said he was not backtracking on the policy.
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