Tony Crook (O'Connor, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Health. The implementation of low-aromatic fuels in remote communities of Australia as a tool to combat the petrol sniffing epidemic is vitally important. A report from the Department of Health and Ageing in 2008 found a 70 per cent drop in the occurrence of petrol sniffing when low-aromatic fuel was made available. Whilst I acknowledge that implementation of low-aromatic fuels is only part of the solution, could the minister please advise the House of the progress that has been made in relation to the rollout of Opal fuel to the northern goldfields of Western Australia, the Central Desert and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in an effort to curb the alarming occurrence of petrol sniffing?

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