Word: colver
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...years in jail. "All our people are dying through alcohol abuse," says Fraser Baker, chairman of the Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Centre. "The drinkers spend nearly all their wages. There are families here whose kids are not going to school. We have to sort this out." Borroloola Council ceo Jeff Colver agrees. "When the [Federal government] baby-bonus payments came through recently," he says, "there was a massive stream of people wandering around clearly drunk, carting cartons of alcohol." Police Superintendent Ian Lea, the local area commander, is also worried. In the Borroloola area, he says, "alcohol-related violence fuels long...