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Annual Report

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Annual Report
2006-2007

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Annual Report
2005-2006

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Annual Report
2004-2005

MYSMAC Newsletters

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Yapa-Kurlangu Yimi
December 2006

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Yapa-Kurlangu Yimi
April 2006

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Yapa-Kurlangu Yimi
2003

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Yapa-Kurlangu Yimi
2002

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Yapa-Kurlangu Yimi
2001

Mt Theo Docs

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The Mt Theo Story 1999
Andrew Stojanovski

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Warlpiri Elders work with petrol sniffers
Liam Campbell and Andrew Stojanovski
2001 Indigenous Law Bulletin

Strategic Plan

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MYSMAC Strategic Plan 2006 - 2011

Theses

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Can new non-toxic products eliminate petrol sniffing behaviours in remote Indigenous communities?
Brett Badger
2005 Masters Thesis, RMIT University

Recommended Reading

Australian Drug and Alcohol Council. 2000, Petrol Sniffing and Other Solvents. A Resource Kit for Aboriginal Communities, Australian Drug and Alcohol Council and Department of Human Services, South Australia.

Brady, M. 1992, Social Meaning of Petrol Sniffing, Aboriginal Studies Press,Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. 2004a, An Evaluation of the Comgas Scheme.

D’Abbs, P. & Brady, M. 2003, ‘Other Drugs, Other People, Other Places; The Policy Response to Indigenous Petrol Sniffing in Australia’
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/2003-inhalant/dabbs.pdf

D’Abbs, P. & Maclean, S. 2000, Petrol Sniffing In Aboriginal Communities: A Review of Interventions

Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. 2004b, ‘Petrol Sniffing in Remote Northern Territory Communities: Final Report’, Northern Territory Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community
http://www.nt.gov.au/lant/parliament/committees/substance/
Petrol%20Sniffing%20Report%20-%20FINAL.pdf


Meg Lees’ Federal Parliamentary Speech on petrol sniffing
http://www.democrats.org.au/speeches/?speech_id=457&display=1

Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. 1985, Senate Select Committee on Volatile Substance Fumes, Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra.

Siegel, N. 2003, ‘The Interactions Between Petrol Sniffers and Bush Court in Indigenous Communities’, Australian Institute of Criminology Inhalant Use and Disorder Conference
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/2003-inhalant/siegel.pdf

South Australian Coroner. 2002, Findings of Coronial Inquest
http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/courts/coroner/findings/
findings_2002/kunmanara_ken.finding.htm




The success of the Mt Theo Program has led to many enquiries from all over Australia from media and other communities to hear the Mt Theo story and learn about the Mt Theo Program.

We encourage interested parties to browse our website and the selection of articles, reports and documents on this page before contacting us.

If you have a media enquiry about the Mt Theo program please email admin@mttheo.org

Federal Senate Reports

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Beyond Petrol Sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities

Community Affairs Reference Committee, June 2006

Written articles about Mt Theo


Putting the brakes on petrol sniffing (pp.6-7)
ANTAR newsletter 2007


Touring senators skirt reality of petrol sniffing by Ashleigh Wilson
The Weekend Australian 25 Feb 2006


Outstation gives hope to petrol sniffing inquiry
ABC NEWS Online 24 Feb 2006


Desert project fuels hopes for young sniffers by Lindsay Murdoch
The Sydney Morning Herald 21 Feb 2006


Community continues push for non-sniffable fuel rollout
ABC NEWS Online 6 Sept 2005


SA urged to adopt drug rehab scheme
ABC NEWS Online 30 Oct 2005


Spirit Healers: Communities in Central Australia are tackling the tragedy of petrol sniffing in news and imaginative ways, and the results are positive by Michael Bradley
The Sydney Morning Herald 8 Jan 2005


Success of petrol sniffing program could be used as model
ABC NEWS Online 5 July 2002


An Australian Aboriginal community makes headway against a decades-old problem troubling its youths by Shawn Donnan
The Christian Science Monitor 15 July 2002


Breathing Fresh Air by Michael Bradley
The Sydney Morning Herald 10 Dec 2001


A sign of hope for petrol sniffers by Mark Metherell
The Sydney Morning Herald 8 Sept 2000

Radio stories about Mt Theo


Polly-Anne Napangardi Dixon's story - Heywire ABC Radio Competition Winner
ABC radio, Heywire
http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/stories/2002/nt/pand.htm


LIfe after petrol, Alvin's story
ABC radio
http://www.abc.net.au/alicesprings/stories/s1578013.htm

Petrol sniffing inquiry travels to Central Australia
ABC radio, AM program
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1575537.htm

Indigenous delegation calls for sniffable petrol ban
ABC radio, The World Today
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1454383.htm

Community program reduces petrol sniffing
ABC radio, PM program
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1323217.htm

TV stories about Mt Theo

ABC 7:30 Report
28 Feb 2006

SBS LIving Black
18 April 2005

ABC 7:30 Report
22 Jan 2002