Owen graduates from high school on Friday, and says his parents are nervous sending him off to schoolies on the Gold Coast.

“They won’t be around me, so they don’t really know what’s happening, and they want me to have a good time without having to worry about alcohol and drugs,” he said.

Unlike last year’s school-leavers, the graduating cohort of 2025 will not have access to pill testing services set up at the schoolies hub at Surfers Paradise.

Brisbane high school graduates: Harris, Lara, Amelia and Owen. Credit: Stephanie Felasina

In 2024, the temporary site run by CheQpoint went ahead as schoolies attendees descended on the beachside strip, despite opposition from the then just-elected Queensland LNP government, and tested 27 samples.

In the year since, CheQpoint’s services we

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