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Bob Durnan is a community development worker and member of PAAC – the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition in Alice Springs. He lives in Alice Springs and has worked in Aboriginal town camps and remote communities, including health services, in the Northern Territory and Queensland for 35 years. He has also worked as an adviser to NT and Federal Labor governments.