Queensland showdown looms over pill-testing clinic’s plan to reopen with private funds

Deputy premier threatens to ban practice that was opened as publicly funded service by previous Labor government and then shut down by LNP

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The Queensland government is set for a showdown over its objections to a plan to reopen a pill testing clinic in Brisbane with private funding.

The Loop Australia – which operated the CheQpoint clinic in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane’s inner north, with public money until April – has announced a plan to reopen on Friday after it received a private donation.