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Central Australian regional council flags jump in alcohol-related harm after NT grog bans lifted

A Central Australian regional council servicing nine remote Aboriginal communities has laid bare the impacts it has observed since long-term alcohol bans were lifted in the Northern Territory in July. 

The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC), which covers an area of around 280,000 square kilometres to the north of Alice Springs, has made a submission to the federal parliamentary inquiry investigating the fallout from the sunsetting of the Stronger Futures legislation.

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