Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Halls Creek: Community grog bans ‘beneficial’
A health policy academic said grog bans in the Kimberley reducing health and social problems, violence and crime.
Curtin University Professor Mike Professor Daube was commenting on total alcohol bans to be introduced at Kundat Djaru (Ringer Soak), Nicholson Town Camp and Koongie Park (Lamboo Gunian) Aboriginal communities in Halls Creek shire.
WAToday [read this story]
Koongie resident Penny Yeeda said the community had asked for the ban to protect the children.
Local police and the shire support the bans.
The West Australian [read this story]
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