Nepal Sanitation Studio 2013 … a year on
January 7th, 2014
One of the results of the Sanitation Studio, run in early 2013, was a kit to help the local Nepal team site all the toilet and waste treatment system components….
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Housing and health – the universal impacts
December 23rd, 2013
The authors Dr Emma BakerDr Laurence LesterProfessor Andrew BeerMs Kate MasonDr Rebecca Bentley Abstract Housing is a central component of productive, healthy and meaningful lives, and a principle social determinant of…
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Health Hardware Design: A Design Research Journey Towards A Healthier Australian Indigenous Living Environment
December 5th, 2013
This design book showcases ‘his sustained commitment to improving standards of Indigenous Australian Environmental Health through his innovative designs of health hardware’. Christian sets out the applied design research…
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HH and Sticky Situations
December 3rd, 2013
Have a look at Sticky Solutions particularly the work with WASSUP. HH is currently seeing if there are any particular issues that we can assist with in their tough, daily…
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50% of website traffic
November 22nd, 2013
For over 2 months, 50% of Healthabitat website traffic has been international visitors. HH notes this trend and also that the enquiries coming to the site are from an increasingly…
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High hopes for “the indigenous dozen”
November 22nd, 2013
Patricia Karvelas writes in The Australian – “Tony Abbott has recruited 12 of the most powerful business and indigenous figures in the country to provide advice on Aboriginal economic reform, including…
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World Toilet Day – everyday?
November 21st, 2013
Dani is employed by Monash University as a Research Fellow. Her current work is funded as part of the AusAID Australian Development Research Awards Scheme. She is also affiliated with…
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Rumours of a ‘new’ National Indigenous Housing Guide?
November 21st, 2013
A contract being awarded to the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) to produce a new edition of the National Indigenous Housing Guide (the 4th?) was rumoured. CAT produced the National…
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Worldskills Foundation support
November 21st, 2013
The Foundation agreed to support 4 international projects in July this year and the first project to commence on site is the Sanitation project, with 2 pro to-type wash and…
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Rural Habitat
November 8th, 2013
Rural Habitat, an exhibition of low-cost housing for rural and remote communities in Mexico by Mobile Workshop Architects (MWA) in collaboration with NGO Vasco de Quiroga PXXI, opens in Customs…
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And now, the assessment of Australia’s remote Indigenous housing program
November 8th, 2013
After many years of rolling out the $5.5 billion remote Indigenous housing program, (SIHIP being the Northern Territory part of the national program) the first assessment of what has been…
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More toilets for Nepal – ‘shovelling money abroad’
November 4th, 2013
Lets start by considering the very positive side of all those who help. Consider each village family (like the one in the photo) that makes a cash contribution equivalent to…
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