The New South Wales Government will assemble an "expert panel" to advise it on how to make music festivals safer, after two people died at an event at the weekend. Two people died from suspected drug ...

A DANCE music festival with an appalling record of drug deaths and injury has taken another two young lives and left three more fighting for theirs — leaving justice campaigners questioning why it was ...

Organisers for the highly maligned Defqon.1 dance festival have announced the event has been “postponed indefinitely” and will not return to Australia this year after failing to secure a suitable ...

Three weeks after two festival-goers died from suspected drug overdoses at Sydney's Defqon.1, ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury is pushing to relocate the festival to Canberra. The NSW Premier has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will seek the advice of an expert panel on how to make music festivals safer, but the panel will not ...

Emergency registrar Sean Wing said that Defqon. 1 “was a turning point” for drug deaths at festivals, telling an inquest that in hindsight he was not “adequately” prepared to treat the anticipated 30 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A father whose son died at the Defqon.1 music festival three years ago has called on Premier Gladys Berejiklian not to close it down.

The organiser of a Sydney music festival where two young people died from drug overdoses has revealed a crucial detail he did not discuss with care providers. Diana Nguyen, 18, and Joseph Pham, 23, ...