Staffer Alastair Furnival had links to alcohol industry, helped strip funding from group minimising alcohol harm

By Amy Corderoy
Updated February 18 2014 - 10:18am, first published February 17 2014 - 6:47pm
Labor says Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash needs to give a full account of the decision to axe funding from the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Labor says Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash needs to give a full account of the decision to axe funding from the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

A lobbyist working in Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash's office had links to the alcohol industry and played a key role in stripping Australia's peak drug and alcohol body of its funding.

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