August 11th, 2012
From an Australian perspective it is hard to imagine the combination of factors confronting building design, construction and health in the polar region. Alaska has a width equal to the…
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June 25th, 2012
Read the paper as you look through the pictures below of houses that were renovated under the current National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing. The pictures of (2 houses…
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June 19th, 2012
Thanks to Sally Brooks for the following Friday, 08 June 2012 No cover for cement floors A troubled remote housing program has been dealt another blow by a revelation that…
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June 16th, 2012
Professor Jon Altman is one of the few academics who have remained vocal on Indigenous issues over the last 10 years. His thoughts on reporting of Minister Macklin’s presentation to…
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May 31st, 2012
The exhibition was conceived and constructed by Christian Tietz, Greg Norman and Tasman Munro and set out designs that will allow the use of the yard area around houses to…
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May 27th, 2012
The Yardmaster exhibition (see EVENTS FOR DETAILS) brings the ideas, bits and pieces to the city for all to see what has been built in rural and remote areas of…
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May 1st, 2012
When houses have high populations, people are poor and can’t afford baby baths, laundry tubs become a good place to wash young children. If washing machine waste water has to…
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May 1st, 2012
HH heard rumblings about the presentation material presented to the conference. Several reports about the HH paper were made public but we notice that a scant record of the conference…
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April 21st, 2012
According to the ‘contract’ between the Australian and South Australian governments under the $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, all houses shall comply with the Australian Building Code,…
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April 18th, 2012
HH encountered this lack of basic facilities when our partners CHDS (Nepal) and Rotary were trying to establish a tooth brushing program, in parallel with the two current sanitation projects…
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April 14th, 2012
Greeted by the CHDS, the village construction team and the Bhattedande villagers Ms Grace embarked on some ‘toilet trekking’ around the village. Inspecting toilets, septic tank systems and the biogas…
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April 8th, 2012
During the final judging for the World Habitat Awards in mid 2011 Bishnu Shrestha, of the Community Health and Development Society (Nepal), made a presentation to the judging panel in…
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