It was very exciting for a nano-second.
By lunchtime on December 2, 2020 word on the street and online was that the Berejiklian government had bitten the bullet and was about to make a ‘big announcement’ on drug law reform in the wake of the Ice Inquiry.
The state government had hand-picked their Ice Inquiry Commissioner and given him free rein in the expectation he would tow the party line.
Much to the government’s discomfort, Dan Howard SC not only recommended pill testing at festivals, but also the decriminalisation of personal possession of all illicit drugs.
To add to the pressure, Coroner Harriet Graham completed an exhaustive inquiry into drug deaths at festivals, which pointed in the same direction.