March 26th, 2026
Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, released September 2025, identifies infrastructure and built environment risks as high to very high by 2050. The assessment involved over 250 climate experts and…
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March 12th, 2026
A Medical Journal of Australia study has put a dollar figure on the well established fact: poor housing makes people sick, and fixing it saves money. Environmental risk factors—primarily water…
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February 26th, 2026
The second edition of Australia’s National Healthy Skin Guideline, endorsed by peak medical bodies including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases, has explicitly positioned…
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February 12th, 2026
The “Ending Rheumatic Heart Disease: Queensland First Nations Strategy 2021–2024” report on heart disease (RHD) notifications in Queensland shows they have fallen by 30% in the past year, with acute…
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November 6th, 2025
Governments service their fleet cars annually. Why don’t they do the same for a house? Every car in Australia needs a rego check. It’s simple: if you don’t service your…
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September 1st, 2025
Rheumatic Heart Disease – A Preventable Killer Linked to Housing Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is one of the leading causes of early death for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
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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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November 20th, 2024
This State of the Climate report shows aspects on Australia’s climate, global climate and projected future changes. The findings and outlook are scary. Observations, reconstructions of past climate and…
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May 17th, 2024
‘Overcrowding’ or ‘Crowding’? Perhaps there is only a small difference, but we think it is a distinct and important one. We have talked on this topic many years…
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January 20th, 2024
Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory (AHNT) is the community-driven peak body for Aboriginal housing in the NT, representing 16 housing and homeland service providers and 4 land councils across the NT…
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October 6th, 2023
The final Monitoring and Evaluation report into the current Healthy Homes project in the NT, of which the licensed Housing for Health methodology formed a part, has been released. The…
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August 8th, 2023
Septic Tanks are an ongoing health and safety concern in the living environment. How long since your septic system has had a health check? Overview Septic tanks are common…
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