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A senior ACT public servant has been lashed by a magistrate after being caught drink driving on the South Coast following an evening where she downed two bottles of wine.
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A senior ACT public servant has been lashed by a magistrate after being caught drink driving on the South Coast following an evening where she downed two bottles of wine.

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