One of the Aboriginal elders instrumental in campaigning for alcohol restrictions in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has slammed senior media advisors to the prime minister after a photo of them drinking in an alcohol restricted community came to light last week.

Jaru elder and retired schoolteacher, Doreen Green, who lobbied to have alcohol restrictions put in place in Halls Creek in Western Australia following a spate of suicides in 2007, is angry at two of the prime minister's media advisors who she claims, "made fun of alcohol restrictions in black communities".

"Alcohol has led many in our community to high rates of low esteem and hopelessness and we have kids killing themselves because of it," Green told BuzzFeed News.



Green was furious after seeing the newly appointed Coalition election press manager, Nicole Chant, and fellow Turnbull staffer James Hart posing for a selfie taken by Channel 10 cameraman Peter Atkinson during a trip to Bamaga in far north Queensland with former prime minister Tony Abbott last year.