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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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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August 15th, 2012
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says 2.6 billion people still don’t have a safe “affordable way to poop”. Speaking to Times of India newspaper on Thursday, Gates said the…
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August 11th, 2012
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) is an industry-based, nonprofit corporation created to facilitate the development, use, and testing of energy-efficient, durable, healthy, and cost-effective building technologies for people…
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August 11th, 2012
From an Australian perspective it is hard to imagine the combination of factors confronting building design, construction and health in the polar region. Alaska has a width equal to the…
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August 11th, 2012
HH will save on office space, the humble scale of the office indicating our tentative start in the north, and spend more money on an essential form of transport in…
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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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July 27th, 2012
An interactive display capturing a broad range of live data from the Australian pavilion and surrounding pavilions in Venice as well as from a central desert house in Australia. The…
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July 15th, 2012
Why do only 35% of houses tested around Australia have a working shower? For many years Healthabitat has been told the tests are too tough and that’s why the showers…
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July 9th, 2012
Lisa Cahill writes “Design is in everything we do and come across in our daily lives. Design supports, sustains and enriches us. Design decisions are made all the time unknowingly,…
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July 5th, 2012
When negotiating with a new project to improve toilets, hand washing and teeth cleaning facilities for a school serving 400 children the often ‘unseen’ process conducted by the Nepal team…
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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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