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10.15pm GMT
The mother of a 19-year-old who died from a drug overdose at a music festival has urged the New South Wales premier to change the state’s laws by allowing police to let people off with warnings when caught with small amounts of drugs.
Jennie Ross-King’s daughter Alex died in January 2019 after she took an unusually high amount of MDMA before arriving at a festival because she was afraid of being caught with the drugs by police.
Related: Parents of overdose victim urge NSW to adopt warning system for drug offences
10.04pm GMT
A search is underway for two men missing in waters off Kangaroo Island.
The men are believed to have left Cape Jervis, south of Adelaide, on Thursday afternoon heading to Cape Willoughby, on the island’s east coast, to go fishing.
Search and rescue team departs Adelaide Airport heading to Kangaroo Island, searching for two missing fisherman who failed to return home last night. @9NewsAdel pic.twitter.com/CkIJzmiXDW
Continue reading…MP Andrew Hastie has criticised the release of details included in the war crimes report for allowing China to ‘malign our troops’; PM faces questions over Murdoch Christmas party flight; NSW awaits update on new Covid cluster. Follow all today’s news Follow the global coronavirus liveblogSydney hotel quarantine worker diagnosed with Covid-19NSW Covid hotspots 10.15pm GMTThe mother of a 19-year-old who died from a drug overdose at a music festival has urged the New South Wales premier to change the state’s laws by allowing police to let people off with warnings when caught with small amounts of drugs.Jennie Ross-King’s daughter Alex died in January 2019 after she took an unusually high amount of MDMA before arriving at a festival because she was afraid of being caught with the drugs by police. Related: Parents of overdose victim urge NSW to adopt warning system for drug offences 10.04pm GMTA search is underway for two men missing in waters off Kangaroo Island.The men are believed to have left Cape Jervis, south of Adelaide, on Thursday afternoon heading to Cape Willoughby, on the island’s east coast, to go fishing.Search and rescue team departs Adelaide Airport heading to Kangaroo Island, searching for two missing fisherman who failed to return home last night. @9NewsAdel pic.twitter.com/CkIJzmiXDW Continue reading…