MPs look at Groote Eylandt alcohol management

A federal parliamentary committee is seeing what lessons can be learned from Groote Eylandt's liquor management plan.

Sharman Stone

Like many remote Indigenous communities in Australia, Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, once had a huge alcohol abuse problem.

But in the past decade, a liquor management plan is being credited with doing much to reduce the harm.

Now, it's the subject of a federal parliamentary committee hearing.

Liberal MP Dr Sharman Stone is the chair of a House of Representatives inquiry into the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communities.

She spoke to Harriet Conron about the committee's visit to Groote Eylandt.

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