Craig Roberts from the Royal Life Saving Society says more than 2,800 Australians have drowned in the past 10 years, and “80 per cent of the victims were men”.
A new campaign called Make the Right Call has been launched urging Australian men to stop showing off near the water in an effort to curb the number of deaths.
The RLSS Australia launched the campaign “to educate males 25-45 years of age about the dangers of our inland waterways like rivers, lakes, dams and lagoons,” and urge them to think twice about drinking near waterways. The statistics showed 837 deaths occurred in inland waterways, with 32 per cent of them involving alcohol. Image: Getty
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