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Remember the Infrastructure Australia conference earlier this year held in Alice Springs? Well no one else seems to !!!!

Building houses in Indigenous communities is only useful if the houses function. A poorly functioning house may prove to be a health hazard rather than benefit. So what level of quality is being achieved in South Australia?

There was excitement all round as the Australian ambassador to Nepal, Susan Grace, visited the sanitation project in Bhattedande Village.

For 18 months HH has been raising concerns about the quality of house construction being completed under the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing.

The 'just released' Senate report on Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory seems to have ignored all aspects of Indigenous housing.

Under the new Federal Government "public housing policy" for Indigenous housing, the management and maintenance of houses will be the responsibility of the various states and territories around Australia. 

The Infrastructure Australia conference in Alice Springs was presented with a multitude of dots in Alice Springs on the 6th and 7th of February. What picture they will reveal is less than clear.

What is really happening on Elcho Island with the big money National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing program? This short story in The Australian raises many many more questions than it answers about this and other NPARIH...

The final stakeholder meeting to wrap up the Fixing Houses for Better Health (FHBH) program was held in Canberra last week (10/11/11).
After 12 years, the FHBH program ended not with a bang but a whimper.

Should an internationally recognised set of measures to assess whether Indigenous communities in Australia are being dealt with honestly and openly by large development projects be considered?  Transparency International's ...