Recent debate about the provision (or not) of washing machines in Indigenous ’public housing’ needs careful consideration. Are washing machines white goods, provided by tenants or are they essential health hardware that…
The overall title for the Australian exhibition is FORMATIONS and this aptly describes all those who for 27 years have worked to improve the living conditions and health of Indigenous…
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) is doing a good job of raising the issues of poor housing management and maintenance. PRISCILLA COLLINS, CEO, NAAJA: When we went to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…