Greens leader Richard Di Natale has sought answers over the collapse of a planned pill-testing trial at Canberra's Spilt Milk music festival.
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Set to become Australia's first trial of pill-testing on November 25, the plan received ACT government approval last month and was expected to go ahead at the Commonwealth Park event.
But it was abruptly cancelled last week amid claims the Safety Testing Advisory Service at Festivals and Events consortium had not received required approvals for the event on federal government controlled land.
The consortium was preparing to fund and operate the trial, with cooperation from police.
Spilt Milk organisers Kicks Entertainment said the consortium had not provided risk assessment, insurance and legal documentation in time for consideration by federal authorities.
It emerged on Friday former ACT Liberal opposition leader Jeremy Hanson had written to Health Minister Greg Hunt and Territories Minister Fiona Nash, complaining the plans would be in conflict with the federal government's anti-drugs stance.
The federal government said it did not intervene to block the trial.
The National Capital Authority said no federal minister had given any instructions to block pill-testing, but the final operational plans and documentation supplied to it by the organisers had not included a specific "request to hold [a] pill-testing trial at Spilt Milk 2017".
On Tuesday, Senator Di Natale took the issue to federal Parliament, seeking documents about the cancellation from the Turnbull government.
The Senate voted to require the government to provide any response from a federal minister to the correspondence from Mr Hanson, the ACT's shadow attorney-general, by 6pm on Thursday, October 19.
Senator Di Natale also sought any documents from the past two months relating to the planned trial held by Senator Nash or Mr Hunt, Attorney-General George Brandis and any other government member or agency.
It remains unclear what documentation is required by the authority, given no similar trials have been held anywhere in the country previously.
A spokesman for the consortium said lawyers had been working "around the clock" to prepare the latest documents following the National Capital Authority's request last Wednesday.
ACT Greens Minister Shane Rattenbury accused Mr Hanson of sabotaging the pill-testing trial by "calling up his mates on the hill".
On Tuesday, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister James McGrath told the Senate the government had agreed to supply the documents and Senator Di Natale's motion was unnecessary.
The consortium has vowed to pursue trials at other events, while consideration of plans for Spilt Milk are continuing.
A similar pill testing proposal for the Groovin The Moo festival was denied in early 2017, but ACT Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris said free testing would be available next month "to keep people safe".
The plan had received support from ACT Policing and would not have been in breach of any territory law.
