2016 was a big year for Spilt Milk festival, launching with a lineup that boasted huge names like Flume, Sticky Fingers and Violent Soho, but soon attracted criticism for featuring just one female artist.

Neverthess, the festival had an impressive first year overall, and is back with some bigger plans in 2017, announcing that it will all be going down once again on Saturday November 25 at Canberra’s Commonwealth Park, with presale signup now available through the website.

As Music Feeds reports, Spilt Milk is hoping to be the first festival to trial the harm-reduction measure of pill testing at this year’s event, with Harm Reduction Australia President Gino Vumbaca stating that he hopes to work with government to see it introduced this year.

“Our attention is now focused on working with Government to get them to endorse or support — or whatever word they want to use — our trial at an upcoming festival, which we hope will be Spilt Milk,” he told the publication.

“We’re confident that the ACT Government, once it’s had a chance to test all the evidence and [know] quite clearly how we’re going to operate, and the checks and balances and safety issues have been addressed — they should be comfortable in at least trialling a pill testing program.

“We’re not saying they should introduce it at every festival, or something that happens everywhere. We’re saying a trial that happens at one festival.”

We’ll have to wait and see what happens on that front, but for now, we’re looking forward to seeing what sort of lineup Spilt Milk is preparing to drop on Canberra in the coming weeks.

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