ADVOCACY: NAIDOC Week 2025
July 7th, 2025
This year NAIDOC week celebrates “Strength, Vision & Legacy” – a fitting aspiration. HH wants to take this opportunity to thank the thousands of people who have, over 40 years,…
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RESOURCE: UPK Report and AP Design Guide
June 26th, 2025
Recently uploaded to the HH resources are two foundational documents, the UPK Report and the AP Design Guide. All of Healthabitats work is founded on principles in the “Uwankara Palyanku…
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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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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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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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NEWS: MoU signed showing housing is a critical health priority
October 18th, 2024
Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) and Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory (AHNT) have signed an MoU. The MoU formalises a collaborative partnership to improve the quality of remote Aboriginal housing…
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SUBMISSION: National Strategy for Food Security in Remote First Nations Communities
September 20th, 2024
National Strategy for Food Security in Remote First Nations Communities, submission call out. The Australian Government is developing a national strategy for food security in remote First Nations communities (the…
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RESEARCH: Why build homes for a climate that no longer exists?
May 31st, 2024
Sweltering Cities and Renew have released a report laying out how rising temperatures will impact the ‘energy efficiency’ of our homes. The report shows energy needed to cool homes is set…
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