{"id":273324,"date":"2026-02-08T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273324\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:13:08","slug":"dreamstate-festival-tragedy-in-sydney-as-man-dies-and-six-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273324\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamstate festival tragedy in Sydney as man dies and six rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Officers from the South West Metropolitan Region were patrolling the site of the festival on Saturday night when several festival-goers became ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">The incident is now under investigation and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">The festival, which describes itself online as the \u201cUltimate Trance and Techno Destination\u201d, was held at Sydney on Saturday, with day two scheduled to be held in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from the South West Metropolitan Region were patrolling the site of the festival on Saturday night when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,806,1558,2006,6179,7126,154276,5131,5504,305,42,2241,78,5158,157,43,25292,2682,8143,11426,1534,4739,1734,19554,61,40,38,41,39,12628],"class_list":["post-273324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-as","tag-been","tag-dance","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-dreamstate","tag-festival","tag-following","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-man","tag-music","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-others","tag-park","tag-rushed","tag-saturday","tag-six","tag-sydney","tag-taken","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}