Yardmaster comes to the city
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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When the detail is important …
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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Erasing the Dots
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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Indigenous housing quality in South Australia
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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Have you been to school?
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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Australian ambassador to Nepal visits the sanitation project
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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World Habitat Award finally gets to Nepal
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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“More new houses in NT communities need repairs” ABC report
March 18th, 2012
Having documented poor construction in both new and upgraded houses, now other reports are starting to emerge about house construction quality. See the ABC report link and read more. These…
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“Worth of Indigenous housing jobs questioned” ABC report
March 18th, 2012
The report from the ABC questions the type of work that local Indigenous people were involved in during the $1.7 billion dollar Federally-funded Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Project (SIHIP) in the…
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Invisible housing
March 14th, 2012
The brief extracts from the report’s index show the areas covered by the report and housing seems to be absent. As always we are prepared to stand corrected. Housing’s impact…
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Kirke Forbes – Nelson (Kumanara*)
March 13th, 2012
He worked on the original Housing for Health project in Pipalyatjara and never stopped working on the same principles as a UPK environmental health officer for the APY Lands, in the…
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Maintaining Indigenous houses in South Australia
March 9th, 2012
An interesting interview with one of the people charged with delivering these services to a remote location in the remote northern region of South Australia is attached. HH has underlined…
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