The Ombudsman’s report on NT Housing

June 16th, 2012

  • General
  • Government

The main findings of the report in the Executive Summary note: Over the past two years, concerns about the implementation of the housing reforms have been a key source of…

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Overcrowding Tracker

June 16th, 2012

  • General
  • Government
  • Overcrowding

Tracker’s recent review on Minister Macklin’s speech in Canada at the World Indigenous Housing Conference noted: Fourthly, renovations — which have been the focus of the NT intervention housing strategy — do precisely nothing…

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Constructing and maintaining houses

May 29th, 2012

  • Government
  • Media

HH helped supply data and experience to assist Peter Phibbs complete this paper.  The National Indigenous Housing Guide is noted as an important tool to improve housing: If used in…

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Cracks appearing ?

May 29th, 2012

  • Government
  • Media

BY: NATASHA ROBINSON From: The Australian May 29, 2012 12:00AM CONSTRUCTION firms contracted to build houses in Aboriginal communities may be tempted to “overcharge and under-deliver” as flawed remote housing…

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Health Hardware

May 29th, 2012

  • General
  • Government

In a back to the future moment, HH has dug up a simple drawing done in the early 1990’s that describes an example of how the ‘stuff’ of housing, infrastructure…

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Erasing the Dots

May 1st, 2012

  • Australia
  • Government
  • Media

HH heard rumblings about the presentation material presented to the conference. Several reports about the HH paper were made public but we notice that a scant record of the conference…

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Indigenous housing quality in South Australia

April 21st, 2012

  • Australia
  • Government

According to the ‘contract’ between the Australian and South Australian governments under the $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, all houses shall comply with the Australian Building Code,…

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Invisible housing

March 14th, 2012

  • Australia
  • Government
  • Media

The brief extracts from the report’s index show the areas covered by the report and housing seems to be absent. As always we are prepared to stand corrected.  Housing’s impact…

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