Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 10 May 2012, p. 2424.

[2]        Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012, Explanatory Memorandum.

[3]        Opal is the brand name of the low aromatic fuel developed by BP in 2004. It was launched in 2005 and contains lower aromatic compounds than other fuels. For more information refer to http://www.opalfuel.com.au/page.cfm/what-is-opal/low-aromatic-fuel (accessed 16 July 2012).

[4]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 3.

[5]        Senate Select Committee on Volatile Substance Fumes, Volatile Substance Abuse in Australia, Canberra, 1985, p. 156.

[6]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 5.

[7]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 5.

[8]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 99.

[9]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 100.

[10]      Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities, June 2006, p. 100.

[11]      Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy, March 2009, p. 16.

[12]      Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Petrol Sniffing Strategy, accessed 18 September 2012, http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/our-responsibilities/indigenous-australians/programs-services/communities-regions/petrol-sniffing-strategy

[13]      Australian Government, Submission 19, p. 1.

[14]      Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy, March 2009, p. 4.

Chapter 2

[1]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy, March 2009, Recommendation 5, p. 51.

[2]        South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010.

[3]        The committee notes that an earlier cost benefit study conducted in 2006 by Access Economics on behalf of the Opal Alliance also found that the benefits of a subsidised supply of Opal fuel through designated regions in the NT, SA and WA exceeded the costs of the measure. See Access Economics, Opal Cost Benefit Analysis, Report for the Opal Alliance, February 2006.

[4]        South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, p. vii.

[5]        The table in Appendix 3 shows the SACES Analysis Area.

[6]        South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, pp. vi–vii.

[7]        A description of the data analysis is included in the section 'Evaluation of the Opal strategy' in Chapter 3.

[8]        South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, pp. vii–viii.

[9]        South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, p. viii.

[10]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, p. 112.

[11]      Australian government, Combined Australian Government response to two Senate Community Affairs References Committee Reports on petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities, 22 June 2010, pp. 32–33.

[12]      Australian government, Combined Australian Government response to two Senate Community Affairs References Committee Reports on petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities, 22 June 2010, p. 33.

[13]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 3.

[14]      Australian government, Combined Australian Government response to two Senate Community Affairs References Committee Reports on petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities, 22 June 2010, p. 33.

[15]      The Petrol Sniffing Prevention Program is the third point of the PSS Eight Point Plan.

[16]      Under the PSPP, DoHA is also responsible for petrol sniffing and low aromatic fuel communication and education strategies, data collection, advice about treatment, and rehabilitation for petrol sniffers (Australian government, Submission 19, p. 3).

[17]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 2.

[18]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 11.

[19]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 11.

[20]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 14.

[21]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 2; Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 14.

[22]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 2.

[23]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, and Ms Julia Mansour, Director, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 16.

[24]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 18.

[25]      Mr Arc Vanderzalm, Wycliffe Well Holiday Park, Correspondence received 18 July 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012.

[26]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 3.

[27]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 3.

[28]      Australian government, Submission 19, pp. 3–4.

[29]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, pp. 14–15.

[30]      Ms Julia Mansour, Director, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, and Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 27.

[31]      Answer to question on notice #12 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 17 September 2012.

[32]      Answer to question on notice #11 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 17 September 2012.

[33]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 10.

[34]      Dr Peter d'Abbs who co-authored the original 2006 and 2008 petrol sniffing prevalence studies is now Professor of Substance Misuse Studies at Menzies School of Health Research.

[35]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, pp. 28–29.

[36]      Answer to question on notice #15 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 17 September 2012.

[37]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 4.

[38]      Correspondence from DoHA to the committee, 17 September 2012.

[39]      Mr Robert Ryan, FAHCSIA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 22.

[40]      Mr Robert Ryan, FAHCSIA, Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 23.

[41]      Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 23.

[42]      Answer to question on notice #7 from FaHCSIA, received 18 September 2012.

[43]      CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 5.

[44]      Mr Willie Bookie, Lake Nash, Committee Hansard, 24 June 2012, p. 42; Ms Liza Balmer, Deputy Co-ordinator, NPY Women's Council, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 1–4; Ms Donna Ah Chee, Acting CEO, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 23; Ms Lisa Sharman, Community Leader and Youth Worker, Titjikala, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 34; Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 25; Mr David Hewitt OAM, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 2; Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard , 24 July 2012, p. 39; Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, pp. 48–49.

Chapter 3

[1]        CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 3.

[2]        Dr Peter D'Abbs and Ms Gillian Shaw, Executive Summary of the Evaluation of the Impact of Opal Fuel, October 2008, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra. [The full evaluation report has not been publicly released due to the sensitive nature of data relating to petrol sniffing and to maintain the privacy of individual communities].

[3]        Dr Peter D'Abbs and Ms Gillian Shaw, Executive Summary of the Evaluation of the Impact of Opal Fuel, October 2008, p. 2.

[4]        Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy, March 2009, p. 16.

[5]        Mr Nicolas Rothwell, 'Cheap, easy, fatal: scourge of sniffing returns to remote northern landscape', The Australian, 23 June 2012, p. 1.

[6]        Ms Donna Ah Chee, Acting CEO, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 23.

[7]        Mrs Margaret Hewitt OAM, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 6.

[8]        Ms Susie Low, CEO, Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 17.

[9]        Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council (Aboriginal Corporation), Submission 7.

[10]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 50.

[11]      Mr Andrew Stojanovski OAM, Submission 1, p. 1.

[12]      Mr Andrew Stojanovski OAM, Submission 1, pp. 1–2.

[13]      Barkly Shire Council, Submission 9, p. 1.

[14]      Trevor Edmond, Submission 12.

[15]      Australian Government, Submission 19, p. 1.

Chapter 4

[1]        Ms Lisa Sharman, Community Leader and Youth Worker, Titjikala, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 34; Mr Lance McDonald, Papunya, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 37; Ms   Susie Low, CEO, Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 18; Mr Willie Bookie, Lake Nash, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 42; Mr James Billy, Lake Nash Night Patrol, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 42.

[2]        Mr Lance McDonald, Papunya, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 37.

[3]        Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 38; see also Ms Lisa Sharman, Community Leader and Youth Worker, Titjikala, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 34.

[4]        Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 11, p. 3; see also NPY Women's Council, Submission 7, p. 3.

[5]        The submissions from BP Australia (Submission 15) and Shell Australia (Submission 20) were impartial on the bill and are discussed later in this chapter in the section on stakeholder concerns.

[6]        National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Submission 2, p. 1; Public Health  Association of Australia, Submission 4, p. 4; Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory,  Submission 5, p. 2; NPY Women's Council, Submission 7, pp. 2–4; CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 3; Barkly Shire Council, Submission 9, pp. 2–3; Central Land Council, Submission 10, p. 1; Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 11, pp. 1–3; Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Submission 14, p. 2; National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Submission 16, p. 3;  Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, Submission 18, pp. 2–4. The Office of the Children's Commissioner Northern Territory, Submission 6, pp. 2–3 expressed concern that children were being exposed to sniffable fuels in their communities and supported the legislation to prohibit RULP. The Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, pp. 2–3 noted the resistance of a few retailers towards stocking low aromatic fuel could undermine the viability of the Opal strategy.

[7]        CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 11; Public Health Association of Australia, Submission 4, pp. 4–5; Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 11, p. 3; National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Submission 16, p. 4; Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, Submission 18, p. 4.

[8]        Public Health Association of Australia, Submission 4, pp. 4–5; see also CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 12; Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 11, p. 3.

[9]        Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 25.

[10]      Ms Susie Low, CEO, Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 17.

[11]      CAYLUS, Submission 8, p.3.

[12]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 49.

[13]      Mr Michael Moore, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 10.

[14]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 2, accessed 7 September 2012, http://www.health.nt.gov.au/library/scripts/objectifyMedia.aspx?file=pdf/16/40.pdf&siteID=1&str_title=NT+Volatile+Substance+Abuse+Prev

[15]      Authorised persons have to be individually approved by the Minister and can be, for example, health workers, youth workers, councillors, or elders (see Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 3).

[16]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 2.

[17]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 3.

[18]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 4.

[19]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 4.

[20]      Northern Territory Government Department of Health and Families, Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act, Fact Sheet, p. 4.

[21]      Australian government, Submission 19, p. 5.

[22]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, Wednesday 25 July 2012, p. 51.

[23]      CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 10.

[24]      Mr Blair McFarland and Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, Tuesday 24 July 2012, p. 51.

[25]      Mr Blair McFarland and Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard , Tuesday 24 July 2012, p. 51.

[26]      Mr Blair McFarland and Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard , Tuesday 24 July 2012, p. 51.

[27]      Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 31.

[28]      Dr Howard Bath, Committee Hansard, Wednesday 25 July 2012, p. 35.

[29]      Office of the Children's Commissioner Northern Territory, Submission 6, pp. 3–4.

[30]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, pp. 14-15.

[31]      Mr Sean Brennan, Director Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 10; see also Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17.

[32]      Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Submission 14, p. 3.

[33]      Mr Sean Brennan, Director Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 10; see also Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 4; Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Submission 14, p. 3.

[34]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, p. 13.

[35]      Lamshed v Lake (1958) 99 CLR 132, 141–142 (Dixon CJ, Webb J agreeing), 154 (Kitto J); Newcrest v Commonwealth (1997) 190 CLR 513, 599 (Gummow J); New South Wales v Commonwealth (the WorkChoices case) (2006) 229 CLR 1, 158 (Glesson CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon and Crennan JJ).

[36]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5.

[37]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5.

[38]      Lamshed v Lake (1958) 99 CLR 132. Attorney-General (WA) v Australian National Airlines Commission (1976) 138 CLR 492.

[39]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5.

[40]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5, emphasis original.

[41]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5.

[42]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 5.

[43]      Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Submission 14, p. 3.

[44]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, p. 16.

[45]      Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Submission 17, p. 6.

[46]      Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Submission 14, p. 4.

[47]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, pp. iii, 16–17.

[48]      Mr Sean Brennan, Director Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 14.

[49]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, p. iv.

[50]      Mr Sean Brennan, Director Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 14.

[51]      See for example Mr Michael Moore, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, pp. 7–8; CAYLUS, Submission 8, p. 9; Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 11, pp. 2–3.

[52]      Northern Territory government, Submission 20, Inquiry into petrol sniffing and substance abuse in central Australia, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, March 2009.

[53]      Ms Debbie Guest, 'State looks to federal solution to cut petrol-sniffing', The Australian, 13 August 2010, accessed 12 September 2012, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/state-looks-to-federal-solution-to-cut-petrol-sniffing/story-e6frg6nf-1225904664772

[54]      The Hon John Hill MP, SA Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, letter to the Hon Warren Snowden MP, Federal Minister for Indigenous Health, 23 August 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012, Correspondence.

[55]      BP Australia, Submission 15; Shell Australia, Submission 20.

[56]      BP Australia, Submission 15, p. 1; Shell Australia, Submission 20, pp. 1, 3.

[57]      BP Australia, Submission 15, p. 3.

[58]      Shell Australia, Submission 20, p. 1, emphasis original.

[59]      Shell Australia, submission 20, p. 2.

[60]      Answer to question on notice #9 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 17 September 2012.

[61]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, p. 9.

[62]      Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012, Clause 9(1).

[63]      Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012, Clauses 14 and 15.

[64]      Shell Australia, Submission 20, p. [2].

[65]      Ms Lisa Sharman, Community Leader and Youth Worker, Titjikala, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 34; Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 34.

[66]      BP Australia, Submission 15, p. [3].

[67]      Clause 16(1).

[68]      Clauses 14(3)(f) and 15(3)(f).

[69]      Additional information received: copies of letters from the Hon Warren Snowden MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, to state and territory ministers dated 20 July 2012.

Chapter 5

[1]        Senator Claire Moore, Committee Hansard, 24 June 2012, p. 15.

[2]        Mr Craig Catchlove, Director, Corporate and Community Services, Alice Springs Town Council, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 11.

[3]        Mr Craig Catchlove, Director, Corporate and Community Services, Alice Springs Town Council, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, pp. 11–13.

[4]        Mr Craig Catchlove, Director, Corporate and Community Services, Alice Springs Town Council, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 16.

[5]        Mr Gerard Coffey, CEO, Ngaanyatjarra Council, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, pp. 17–18.

[6]        Ms Kay Eade, Executive Officer, Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 31.

[7]        Mr David Cox and Mrs Melissa Cox, Mt Dare Hotel, Correspondence received 13 July 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012.

[8]        Mr Bryce Boxall, Wiluna Traders, Correspondence received 10 September 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012.

[9]        Mr Blair McFarland and Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, Wednesday 25 July 2012, pp. 40–41.

[10]      Answer to question on notice #17 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 14 September 2012.

[11]      South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation to Mandate the Supply of Opal Fuel in Regions of Australia, Adelaide and Flinders Universities, January 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis, p. vii.

[12]      Ms Sue Campion, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division, DoHA, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, pp. 10–11.

[13]      Mr Ben Clifton, Business Manager, Indervon Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 17.

[14]      Mr Ben Clifton, Business Manager, Indervon Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 19.

[15]      Mr Roy Chisholm, Tilmouth Roadhouse Pty Ltd, Correspondence received 18 July 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012.

[16]      Mr Ben Clifton, Business Manager, Indervon Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 17.

[17]      Mr Bryce Boxall, Wiluna Traders, Correspondence received 10 September 2012, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012.

[18]      Mr Craig Catchlove, Director, Corporate and Community Services, Alice Springs Town Council, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 16.

[19]      Ms Kay Eade, Executive Officer, Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 31.

[20]      Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, pp. 26, 29.

[21]      Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 31.

[22]      Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, Wednesday 25 July 2012, p. 44.

[23]      Mr Ben Clifton, Business Manager, Indervon Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 19.

[24]      Answer to question on notice #3 from Department of Health an Ageing, received 17 September 2012.

[25]      Mr Tristan Ray, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, Wednesday 25 July 2012, p. 44.

[26]      Answer to question on notice from Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, received 25 July 2012; Committee Hansard, 25 June 2012, p. 43.

Chapter 6

[1]        Mr Brian Gleeson, Office of the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services, Submission 3.

[2]        Senator Rachel Siewert, Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012, Second Reading Speech, Senate Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 1363.

[3]        Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 27.

[4]        Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 27.

[5]        Dr John Boffa, Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 31.

[6]        Mr Scott Wilson, Co-deputy Chair, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 2.

[7]        Mr Scott Wilson, Co-deputy Chair, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 3.

[8]        Dr Brett Cowling, CEO, Ngaanyatjarra Health Service, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 23.

[9]        Dr Brett Cowling, CEO, Ngaanyatjarra Health Service, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 24.

[10]      Ms Christine Williamson, Manager, Youth program, NPY Women's Council, Committee Hansard, 25 July, pp. 2–3.

[11]      Ms Christine Williamson, Manager, Youth program, NPY Women's Council, Committee Hansard, 25 July, p. 2; Dr Brett Cowling, CEO, Ngaanyatjarra Health Service, Committee Hansard, 25 July 2012, p. 24.

[12]      Ms Christine Williamson, Manager, Youth program, NPY Women's Council, Committee Hansard, 25 July, p. 2.

[13]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 45; Mr Scott Wilson, Co-deputy Chair, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 4.

[14]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 45.

[15]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 46.

[16]      Mr Blair McFarland, CAYLUS, Committee Hansard, 24 July 2012, p. 47.

[17]      Mr Scott Wilson, Co-deputy Chair, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 5.

Australian Greens - Minority report

[1]        Submission 17¸ p. 7.

[2]        Additional information received: copies of letters from the Hon Warren Snowden MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, to state and territory ministers dated 20 July 2012.

[3]        Clause 14(3).

[4]        See also Proof Committee Hansard, 16 August 2012, p. 23.

[5]        Answer to question on notice #7 from FAHCSIA, received 18 September 2012.