NEWSLETTER | JUNE 2025
June 14th, 2025
Healthabitat’s impact keeps growing. Your support means our team can keep improving the work we do and provide it to even more communities. Together, we’ve surveyed 10,779 houses across…
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ADVOCACY: Requesting and Reporting Maintenance – Part 2, a Case Study
June 12th, 2025
HH has been looking closely at cylical preventative repairs and mainteance, read Part 1 for context. HH wants to showcase a preventative repairs and maintenance program that is running in…
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PROCESS: Training community members to check trade work
June 11th, 2025
A key part of Housing for Health projects is checking trade work. Making sure plumbers, electricians and carpenters do work to a high quality, that is free of any defects,…
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May 29th, 2025
Recently released by “The George Institute for Global Health” is a series of housing resources to assist people to request and report maintenance. These resources titled – “Bundi – A…
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ADVOCACY: Australia Trachoma Surveillance Report 2023
May 15th, 2025
The Kirby Institute has published a report on Trachoma in Australia, an eye disease. Australia is the only high-income country with endemic trachoma. Australia is the only developed country with…
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POLICY: 2025 Closing the Gap Feature Article – ‘Housing for Health’
May 1st, 2025
Closing the Gap education, employment and housing targets: key findings and implications – Feature Article This feature article, released 2nd April 2025, outlines the key factors associated with the Closing…
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ADVOCACY: Review – National Strategy for Food Security in Remote First Nations Communities
April 10th, 2025
The National Strategy for Food Security in Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities is out. In September 2024, Healthabitat submitted to the call-out for the National Strategy for Food…
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TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION: 3D printing houses for remote communities?
March 20th, 2025
Is a 3D printed house an option for remote aboriginal houses? Healthabitat continues to be interested in 3d printing technology. Recently, HH went to visit an almost complete 3D printed…
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ADVOCACY: The value of a plug
March 13th, 2025
How valuable is a plug? As one of our NT Project Manager gets hundreds of plugs ready for projects in east Arnhem land, we reflect on the value of a…
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NEWSLETTER | DECEMBER 2024
December 16th, 2024
What a year 2024 has been! Thank you for your continuing support and interest in our work, it is crucial in helping us do this important work. A total…
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R&D: Tangentyere & CSIRO are monitoring the thermal performance Alice Springs town camp houses
December 6th, 2024
This study supports a broader climate adaptation and heat mitigation project in Alice Springs undertaken by CSIRO in partnership with Tangentyere Council (TCAC). The partnership and project was initiated in…
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RESEARCH: RE-ITERATING the social determinants of health
November 29th, 2024
Central Australian researchers chose to re-iterate rather than revolutionise. This work reminds us that the health ‘gap’ between First Nations and non-First Nations Australia is fundamentally driven by the social…
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