Representatives from the Central Australian Youth Linkup Service (CAYLS) have said that the Northern Territory Government needs to provide more resources to prevent sniffers swapping petrol for other volatile substances.
Tristan Ray from CAYLS said that a similar Senate inquiry was held in the mid-1980s but the situation had hardly improved.
"It doesn't seem that a whole lot of what was proposed in the 1985 Senate inquiry was actually implemented, so we're really hopeful that this time the recommendations are good and then if they are good they're actually implemented," Mr Ray told the ABC.
On Thursday, senators will travel to the remote community of Yuendumu, 290km north-west of Alice Springs, to hear how the 1,150-strong settlement fought the problem by isolating young sniffers on an outstation 160km away in the Tanami desert.
Hearings in Perth and Darwin have already heard from several health and government workers who have called for the blanket roll-out of non-sniffable fuel across the central Australia.
It’s estimated that as many as 600 people in the central Australian region are petrol sniffers and officials attribute the addiction to around 60 Aboriginal deaths in the Northern Territory in the past seven years.