June 30th, 2023
NT Shelter speaks on ABC National News “One in every two houses in remote communities are severely overcrowded” In May, Chief Executive Officer, Peter McMillan spoke to ABC National…
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June 13th, 2023
Healthabitat was invited to speak at the Remote Housing and homelands conference in Darwin. The annual conference is organised by new peak body Aboriginal Housing NT (AHNT) and had the theme…
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March 6th, 2023
The mound building program on the APY lands began in the 1980’s as a health project by Nganampa Health. The programs were an attempt to improve the living conditions within…
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February 17th, 2023
The Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation recently released its report ‘Hot Cities, Chilled Economies: Impacts of Extreme Heat on Global Cities’ The report details the social and economic effects of extreme heat…
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February 3rd, 2023
The report is complied by Kimberley Community Legal Services (KCLS). Based on research conducted with public housing tenants and service providers in the region in 2021, the report explores the…
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December 23rd, 2022
Renter Researchers as a part of the Healthy Homes for Renters campaign have been tracking the temperature of their homes across winter and summer in 2022 Drawing capturing Renter…
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September 2nd, 2022
Australian State and Territory Building Ministers agreed last week to improve the energy efficiency requirements of new homes. The NT however, a region with arguably Australia’s most extreme climate has…
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March 30th, 2022
AHURI in partnership with The Housing for Health Incubator and other collaborators released a 107 page report in November 2021, “Sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia”. Read Time:…
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January 18th, 2022
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) welcomed the November announcement by Minister for Health Greg Hunt of the $10 million Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change….
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November 18th, 2021
In October, Shelter NSW hosted an open forum discussing how Councils can deliver stronger outcomes on affordable housing for their communities across NSW. Councillors, candidates, council staff and community members…
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October 21st, 2021
The Government has announced a Regional Housing Taskforce in response to increasing pressures on the supply and affordability of housing in Regional NSW. Earlier this year, Shelter NSW independently committed…
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August 26th, 2021
Australia is the only developed country that has endemic trachoma. Almost all cases of trachoma are detected in remote Aboriginal communities. The Environmental Health Trachoma Project #endingtrachoma aims to reduce…
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