A former boss of the Australian Federal Police has called for pill testing after two people died at a Sydney music festival.
Mick Palmer on Tuesday addressed the National Press Club in Canberra to launch the Take Control campaign for the Ted Noffs Foundation with CEO Matt Noffs.
The former AFP commissioner said it was not about ?going soft? on drugs or admitting defeat: ?But about admitting what we have is not working.
?If this was a business, we?d have gone broke a long, long time ago.?
Joseph Pham, 23, and Diana Nguyen, 21, both died after the Defqon.1 music festival in Penrith earlier this month.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has resisted a fresh campaign to allow pill testing, instead appointing a panel to make festivals safer. The experts are barred from looking at pill testing.
Mr Palmer said authorities can?t ?arrest our way out of this? to stop drug deaths. To better reduce harm, he said posters at festivals should urge punters:
"Don?t be a dill, test your pill.?
