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Yours and Owls will become the first fest to trial pill testing in NSW, and the first to host a government-run testing facility in Australia.

The Minns Labor Government has approved a 12-month trial -- a sea-change decision that advocates are convinced will save lives.

“This is a simple and common-sense way to save lives,” says Vic Premier Jacinta Allan. “People deserve to know if that one pill will kill.”

Premier Allan and her Victorian Labor party ought to “shift gears and finally set up pill-testing,” says Greens spokesperson Aiv Pugliell.

As the live music community reels from another fatality at a music festival, NSW decision-makers are refusing to budge on pill testing. A 24-year-old Victorian man died on Sunday, the first day of…