THERE are certainties at music festivals - music, lengthy queues and drug searches. But free condoms courtesy of the NSW Department of Health?
Under the NSW Poisons and Therapeutics Goods Act, the NSW government says it will give festival goers over the age of 18 a free promotional pack of condoms at five festivals.
The Government Gazette said the department's Dr Kerry Chant decreed that it would be promoting safe sex at Field Day on New Year's Day, Big Day Out on Australia Day, the Mardi Gras Festival, which starts in February, the Future Music Festival in March and at last week's Sydney Telstra 500 at Sydney Olympic Park.
''Sexually transmitted infections can lead to serious health consequences and condoms are an effective means of preventing infections,'' a departmental spokeswoman said.
''We have previously supported health promotion activities at festivals as part of our efforts to promote safe sex."
In May, safe sex advocates were outraged when the organisers of the largest annual music event in Darwin, Bass In The Grass, banned free condoms.
During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, health officials distributed 70,000 free condoms to visiting athletes, but later said they were ''20,000 short''.
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Free condoms
Free condoms
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Free condoms
Over the age of 18?
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