Trash or treasure?
October 25th, 2012
An article from the Public Service News notes the following. (Picture found by HH and not part of the article) Government homes in on housing vandals A crackdown on vandalism…
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Have your say
October 17th, 2012
Amnesty International Australia have taken the issues of Indigenous housing quality and the lack of action in updating the National Indigenous Housing Guide seriously. Click this link to get the…
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Housing trouble signals a change
October 3rd, 2012
At first viewing the 7.30 Report story is about builders and the construction process. Local builders and suppliers have been excluded or badly treated by fly in fly out building…
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Follow the money
September 26th, 2012
MONEY for programs in remote Northern Territory indigenous communities is being eaten away by bureaucracy, a new report says. AAP September 25, 2012 Northern Territory Co-ordinator General for Remote Services…
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‘Remote towns dare to dream’
September 23rd, 2012
The way the problems are being revealed looks a lot like it did when HH started work in 1985 in the top of South Australia. One big difference is that…
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Who are you going to call?
September 19th, 2012
It is good to know who is making the decisions at the highest level about how Indigenous people’s lives are conducted …. How housing is designed, constructed and maintained… how…
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NT housing, chook-sheds and rent money
August 21st, 2012
THANKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN FOR THE FOLLOWING STORY Mr Mulladad said the payments of $54 a fortnight were deducted automatically by Centrelink from his welfare payments and that no one…
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NT housing accounts ‘a shambles’
August 21st, 2012
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) is doing a good job of raising the issues of poor housing management and maintenance. PRISCILLA COLLINS, CEO, NAAJA: When we went to…
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NT Indigenous Housing problems
August 1st, 2012
The Northern Territory Government says it is trying to resolve a dispute that has seen work on an Aboriginal housing program in Alice Springs come to a standstill. More than…
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The National Indigenous Housing Guide – on a cold lake, in a leaking Canadian canoe with three broken paddles
June 26th, 2012
Given the lack of interest in the Guide on the home front it seems odd that in her recent speech on Indigenous Housing in Canada the Guide was presented as…
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‘Building Homes That Last’ – a good idea
June 25th, 2012
Read the paper as you look through the pictures below of houses that were renovated under the current National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing. The pictures of (2 houses…
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“…investment in remote housing by the Federal Government was unprecedented”
June 19th, 2012
Thanks to Sally Brooks for the following Friday, 08 June 2012 No cover for cement floors A troubled remote housing program has been dealt another blow by a revelation that…
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