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2012
Jan 16: Police probe banned fuel in Opal tank (NT News)
Jan 13: Community sticks with Opal after reality check (ABC News)
Jan 7: Dad's grief and guilt (The Observer)
2011
Dec 27: Compulsory treatment push for Aboriginal petrol sniffers (The Australian)
Dec 22: Law change could save lives of petrol sniffers ( The West Australian)
Dec 22: Opal move fuels hope for no petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Dec 7: Central Australia's new export industry: saving kids' lives (Alice Springs News)
Dec 7: Forums fuel Opal rollout talks (ABC News)
Nov 23: In search of a high, butane gas sniffer blows through the roof (The Daily Telegraph)
Nov 22: McFarland: Petrol-sniffing Act will save lives (Adelaide Advertiser)
Nov 11: Sniffing danger persists due to Yalata Opal Delay (ABC News)
Nov 2: Top End terrors: no answers, only observations (The Drum - ABC)
Oct 30: Teens play with cans of danger (Herald Sun)
Oct 22: Petrol sniffing blamed for remote deaths (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 21: Coroner hands down suicide inquest findings (ABC News)
Oct 12: Murri court may help fight against crime in Mt Isa (North West Star)
Oct 11: Opal fuel - Estimated 1.7 million tanks filled...(BP Media release)
Oct 10: Sniffing a 'hidden habit' for city Aborigines (The Australian)
Oct 8: Battle to end scourge of petrol-sniffing (The Australian)
Oct 7: Sniffing petrol ' a suburban scourge' (The Australian)
Oct 7: Petrol sniffing needs own law (The Advertiser)
Oct 7: Government heeds coroner on petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Oct 6: State needs petrol sniffing laws (The Advertiser)
Oct 6: Petrol sniffing led to Aboriginal teen's death in Adelaide (The Australian)
Oct 6: Opal is not your problem, NT community told (ABC News)
Oct 6: Scrap Opal fuel, community urges (Northern Territory News)
Sep 26: Service demands rise (NorthWest Star)
Aug 8: Mandatory rehab sought for sniffers (Brisbanetimes.com.au)
Aug 5: Balgo inquest hears of petrol sniffing demise (ABC News)
Aug 4: Lack of laws 'failing petrol sniffers' (The West)
Aug 4: Inquest hears of bleak life in remote community (ABC News)
Jul 27: More remote communities act to curb petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Jul 7: Skateboarders go bush on life skills mission (ABC News)
Jun 22: Petrol sniffing 'outbreaks' hit Opal-free communities (ABC News)
Jun 17: Inquest to probe petrol sniffing death (ABC News)
May 25: Kids sniffing glue 'to curb hunger' (Brisbane times)
May 24: Police bid to stop glue sniffing (NewsMail)
May 18: Sniffing warning (NT News)
May 11: Opal investment 'needs back-up youth spending' (ABC News)
May 1: Stop sniffing backing for Opal fuel (NT News)
Apr 29: National boby gives strong support to rollout of Opal fuel (NIDAC Media release)
Apr 28: Inhalant theft result (NT News)
Apr 28: Opposition to push for sniffable fuel ban (ABC News)
Apr 25: Grocery giant blamed for substance abuse problems (NT News)
Apr 25: Supermarket contributing to inhalant abuse: youth worker (ABC News)
Apr 18: Youth workers warn of more petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Apr 17: No way to stop 'chroming' abuse (Sunday Courier Mail)
Apr 15: Police lock up fuel supplies after snifing outbreak (ABC News)
Apr 4: Boy dies from sniffing aerosol can (Gladstone Observer)
Apr 1: Opal fuel rollout welcomed in Goldfields (ABC News
Mar 31: Opal fuel rolled out in Goldfields communities ( ABC News)
Mar 28: Opal fuel to be on sale in fields (Kalgoorlie Miner)
Mar 24: Opal rollout date fuels support from MP (ABC News)
Mar 23: Delay in rollout of Opal fuel criticised (ABC News)
Mar 18: Our glue-sniffing epidemic shame (Bundaberg News)
Mar 18: Fishing community backs Opal fuel (ABC News Video)
Mar 14: Town rallies to say no to sniffing (ABC News)
Jan 25: Opal fuel killing off petrol sniffing, crime (Northern Territory News)
Jan 11: Group wants glue-sniffing legislation (ABC News)
2010
Nov 17: Crook queries Opal roll-out delay (Kalgoorlie Miner)
Nov 16: Government won't make Opal fuel compulsory (ABC News)
Nov 12: Opal Fuel won't damage engines, says BP (ABC News)
Nov 11: Saddle Up (The 7.30 Report ABC)
Nov 10: Opal fuel not ideal for boat motors - AANT (ABC News)
Nov 10: Kakadu Opal roll-out falters (NT News)
Nov 8: Calls for forced roll-out of Opal fuel ( The World Today - ABC Radio program)
Nov 8: Low-aromatic fuel rolled out across Kakadu (ABC News)
Oct 28: Stock non-addictive fuels near Indigenous communities: opposition (ABC News)
Oct 4: Kids turn to glue sniffing (Ipswich Queensland Times)
Sep 21: Sniffing snuffed (Northern Territory News)
Sep 1: Glue sniffing kids hopitalised (Bundaberg Mail)
Aug 14: Jacobs- stife over petrol sniff death (The west Australian)
Aug 13: State looks to federal solution to cut petrol-sniffing (The Australian)
Aug 13: Minister warned about petrol sniffer (ABC News)
Aug 12: Teen sniffer's lonely death (ABC News)
Aug 11: Teen petrol sniffer dies without intervention (ABC News)
Jul 29: Scheme helping snuff out petrol sniffing in Cherbourg (ABC News)
Jul 17: How this boy from Canberra helped children in the Northern Territory to overcome their petrol sniffing addiction for good (The Advertiser)
Jul 15: The people who cracked petrol sniffing (The Canberra Times)
Jul 3: Kids saved from sniffing ghettos (The Australian)
Jun 24: Opal fuel leads to 70pc drop in petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Jun 20: War on outback rackets (The Sunday Times - WA)
Jun 1: Fuel ban 'wont help' (Northern Territory News)
May 31: Teens inhaling lighter fluid (The Age)
May 27: Paint sniffing prompts call for local rehab centre (ABC News)
May 12: Budget targets Top End petrol sniffing sourge (ABC News)
Apr 30: Ban to end sniffing (Northern Territory News)
Apr 24: Sniffing war waged (The Courier Mail)
Apr 7: NT Govt failing petrol sniffers: MIlls (ABC News)
Mar 28: What a petrol-sniffing Aboriginal boy tells us about Australia today (Guardian.co.uk)
Mar 7: New boats for 'first' surf club (Northern Territory News)
Mar 4: Indigenous group up-beat about Opal plans (ABC News)
Mar 4: Sniff-proof petrol for Goldfields (The Australian)
Mar 3: Release of Australian Government tackles petrol sniffing in remote WA (Dept. Health & Ageing)
Mar 3: Petrol sniffing the target of Opal roll-out (ABC News)
Jan 9: Young drug users alarm (Townsville Bulletin)
2009
Nov 27: Mackay kids sniff deadly cocktail ( Daily Mercury)
Nov 26: Treatment for sniffers (NT News)
Nov 25: Youth workers back petrol sniffing treatment laws (ABC News)
Nov 12: Cannabis now APY 'drug of choice' (ABC News)
Nov 12: Petrol sniffing 'wiped out' in Tennant Creek (ABC News)
Nov 12: Cannabis rife in Aboriginal communities (ABC News)
Oct 23: Roadhouse refusing to sell Opal to close (ABC News)
Oct 16: Governments accused of delaying Opal rollout (ABC News)
Sept 16: Parliament debates butane ban (ABC News)
Sept 2: MP fights against petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Aug 31: Liquor bans linked to petrol sniffing rise (ABC News)
Aug 19: Van victim's cousin calls for alcohol, petrol bans (The West Australian)
Aug 3: Opal pump 'needed' in Laverton (ABC News)
Aug 1: Region wants non-sniff petrol (Kalgoorlie Miner)
Jul 31: Talks focus on wider Opal fuel rollout (ABC News)
Jul 29: Indigenous group demands non-sniffable fuel (ABC News)
Jul 26: Mine attracts young addicts (Sunday Times, Perth)
Jul 21: Police defend Tasering petrol sniffer (ABC News)
Jul 21: Man catches fire after Taser shot (ABC News)
Jun 30: Govt considers petrol sniffing advice (ABC News)
Jun 29: Youth worker welcomes Opal fuel recommendation (ABC News)
Jun 26: Petrol sniffing: plan to punish roadhouses (ABC News)
Jun 26: New petrol sniffing scare adds to push for new fuel (The West Australian)
Jun 25: Petrol sniffer's death at home raises alarm (The Australian)
Jun 22: Aerosol-related deaths uncommon: Police (ABC News)
Jun 19: Arnhem community votes for 'bright' future (ABC News)
Jun 17: Oenpelli tackles petrol sniffing problem (ABC News)
Jun 16: Petrol sniffing linked to crime in Oenpelli (ABC News)
May 22: Suicide generation gap in Indigenous communities (ABC News)
May 20: Substance abuse fears over homelands policy (ABC News)
May 4: Service station praised for curbing petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Apr 23: 'I could have saved teen petrol sniffer':nurse (ABC News)
Apr 23: Case worker saw troubled teen only once (ABC News)
Apr 22: Petrol sniffer's file 'like a horror movie' (ABC News)
Apr 20: Flimmaker praised for revealing Indigenous teen issues (ABC News)
Apr 6: Isa substance sniffing worries welfare groups (ABC News)
Mar 28: NT petrol sniffing rehab centre under threat (ABC Online - AM radio)
Mar 25: Beyond petrol sniffing (ABC Radio - LifeMatters)
Mar 20: Petrol sniffing could return to central Aust, govt warned (National Indigenous Times)
Mar 20: Opal to counter petrol-sniffing (The Advertiser)
Mar 20: Opal fuel not petrol of choice (The Australian)
Mar 20: Report urges petrol ban to stop sniffing (The West Australian)
Mar 19: Force 'recalcitrant roadhouses to sell Opal': Inquiry (ABC News)
Mar 19: Video - petrol sniffing slow down (ABC News)
Mar 19: Petrol stations 'must stock Opal fuel' (Sydney Morning Herald)
Mar 18: Talks to focus on Mintabie alcohol restrictions bill (ABC News)
Mar 16: Calls to widen program to prevent sniffing (ABC News)
Mar 15: Drugs Council urges Govt to capitalise on petrol sniffing decrease (ABC News)
Mar 4: Yalata 'missing out' on unsniffable fuel (ABC News)
Mar 4: Senate inquiry told of delays in getting non-sniffable fuel to some remote Aboriginal communities (ABC News)
Feb 16: Solvent abuse services lacking (The Kalgoorlie Miner)
Jan 21: Youth workers to tackle Balgo substance abuse (ABC News)
Jan 19: Councellor disputes petrol sniffing claims (ABC News)
Jan 16: Council says tavern closure boosts petrol sniffing woes (ABC News)
Jan 2: Goldfields visitors urged to keep solvents locked away (ABC News)
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2008
Dec 18: Coroner hands down findings into death of Yalata petrol sniffer (The Advertiser)
Nov 29: Deadly habit (The Advertiser)
Nov 29: Remote town's brave fight to regain its soul (The Advertiser)
Nov 26: Petrol-sniffing a problem that may re-emerge in Yalata, Coroner told (The Advertiser)
Nov 26: Tragic tale of petrol sniffer's slow decline (The Advertiser)
Nov 26: Sniffers walking 30km from camps to get petrol (The Australian)
Nov 25: Petrol sniffing was 'rife' in community (The Advertiser)
Nov 25: 'Carrot and stick' approach beat petrol sniffing (The Australian)
Nov 25: Petrol sniffing 'scorge' needs funding (The Advertiser)
Nov 24: Petrol sniffing returned to Yalata after initial success (The Advertiser)
Nov 14: Workshops tackle paint, petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Nov 3: Canberra blamed for fuel-sniffing rise (The West Australian)
Oct 31: Youth service is calling on Shell to help ease petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Oct 30: Unsniffable fuel drive runs out of gas (The Australian)
Oct 29: Committee hears submissions for Opal fuel rollout (ABC News)
Oct 20: Efforts to cut petrol sniffing tangled in a sea of red tape (The Age)
Oct 20: Sniffers on the increase (Northern Territory News)
Oct 17: Petrol sniffing on the rise in the Top End (The Australian)
Oct 15: Party girl's death from deadly gas (The Daily Telegraph)
Oct 15: Dayle Koch probe questions detective (Perthnow / The Sunday Times)
Oct 14: Questions over teen's butane overdose (The Australian)
Sep 22: Inquiry to hear need for more funds to fight petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Sep 16: Call to shut down Mintabie (AdelaideNow)
Sep 15: Petrol sniffing fears spark call for mine town closure (ABC News)
Sep 3: Yalata has sniffing problem: Ceduna mayor (ABC News)
Sep 2: Inquiry finds new generation of petrol sniffers (ABC News)
Aug 29: Communities wait for sniffing bans (ABC News)
Aug 27: Lack of storage delays Opal roll-out (ABC News)
Aug 27: Petrol sniffing getting worse, elders say (ABC News)
Aug 27: Staff shortages hampering fight against petrol sniffing: review (ABC News)
Aug 19: Sniffing girls expelled from exclusive Pymble Ladies' College (The Daily Telegraph)
Aug 11: Glue sniffing on the rise in Fiji (ABC Radio)
Aug 1: The issue of chroming ranges wider than the law (Moreland City Council)
Jul 31: Roadhouse urged to curb petrol snifing (ABC News)
Jul 25: 'MAD for life' opens new pathways for remote kids (National Indigenous Times)
Jul 13: Sandow's boots a beacon of hope (Couriermail)
Jul 9: Our shame: petrol sniffing in CBD (Northern Territory News)
Jun 26: Senate to probe petrol sniffing (National Indigenous Times)
Jun 16: A dozen lives saved by Opal (National Indigenous Times)
Jun 16: Opal fuel supplies delayed in Halls Creek (ABC News)
May 28: Petrol sniffers target used car yard (ABC News)
May 16: Caravan park closes as youth target tourists' fuel (ABC News)
May 15: Opal can harm: Coroner (National Indigenous Times)
May 14: Govt won't legislate 'no school, no shop' policy (ABC News)
May 13: Boy's death proves Opal fuel not safe to sniff (The Australian)
May 13: Hermannsburg takes up 'no school, no shop' policy (ABC News)
May 12: Petrol sniffing linked to lack of youth service funding (ABC News)
May 12: Youth workers warn of rise in NT petrol-sniffing (ABC News)
May 12: Inquest probs death of boy sniffing Opal fuel (ABC News - Audio)
Apr 24: Hermannsburg meets over petrol sniffing spike (ABC News)
Apr 19: 'Resurgence' in NT petrol sniffing (ABC News)
Apr 11: Govt rules out mandatory Opal sales (ABC News)
Apr 10: Centre for petrol sniffers opens in Alice (ABC News)
Apr 3: Govt vows to extend non-sniffable fuel program (ABC News)
Mar 6: Call for compulsory opal fuel in NT roadhouses (National Indigenous Times)
Mar 6: Petrol sniffing cut in APY lands: SA govt (National Indigenous Times)
Mar 5: Qld Govt hails success of chroming rehab scheme (ABC News)
Feb 13: Sniffing resurgent in Alice: youth service (ABC News)
Feb 7: BLACK AND WHITE: CAYLUS a triumph over tragedy (National Indigenous Times)
Feb 5: Chroming: There's no silver lining ( ABC Tropical Queensland)
Jan 24: Opal forces switch to glue for kids (National Indigenous Times)
Jan 10: Alice kids going to 'extreme lengths' for glue (ABC News)
Jan 4: Alice town camp to ban sniffable fuel (ABC News)
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2007
Dec 12: Opal fuel can be sniffed and kill, inquest told (National Indigenous Times)
Nov 8: Scrymgour pushes for petrol sniffer rehab (ABC News)
Oct 22: Sniffers turning to illicit fuel market (Northern Territory News)
Aug 30: Petrol brain (ABC - Catalyst)
Jul 12: Police finalist in drug awards (National Indigenous Times)
Apr 19: Sniffing death reinforces importance of attending school: Scullion (ABC News)
Mar 21: Call for inhalant abuse education in schools (ABC Radio)
Feb 22: Petrol sniffing halves: report (National Indigenous Times)
Feb 15: Geelong's Chroming Local Response Committee (Geelong Australia)
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2006
Dec 7: Slow opal roll-out costing Aboriginal lives (National Indigenous Times)
Dec 5: Teens died from inhaling petrol fumes, autopsies reveal (National Indigenous Times)
Apr 21: Sniffing at tragedy (Eureka Street)
Jan 28: All in the mind: Petrol sniffing and the brain: 'petrol blackbella, chuck im la bin' Yilila (ABC Radio National)
2005
Nov 10: Ringy's ramblings: Blaming the victim for death in the desert (National Indigenous Times)
Aug 12: Youth workers tell NT petrol sniffing inquest of inadequate health services (ABC Online)
2002
April 9: Media accused of interfering in chroming solution (ABC News Online)
Feb 2: Children at risk (The Age - Education)
Jan 31: Berry Street carers not callous or careless (The Age)
Jan 30: Chroming: whose fault (The Age)
Jan 28: Ban on chroming to be considered (The Age)
Jan 26: Cheap trip to oblivion (The Age)
Jan 24: Call for retail education on potential inhalants (ABC News Online)
2000
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