November 6th, 2026
Broken by Design: housing maintenance in the Kimberley Kimberley Community Legal Services (KCLS) has released a new report, Broken by Design: Public Housing Maintenance in the Kimberley. The report shares…
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October 15th, 2026
Global Handwashing Day | 15 October 2026 This year’s Global Handwashing Day theme, “Be a Handwashing Hero,” encourages people to wash their hands at home, school and work. Washing…
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October 9th, 2026
Old Ideas, New Ground The mound building program on the APY lands began in the 1980’s as a health project by Nganampa Health. We are undertaking a Landscaping for Health…
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June 17th, 2026
New Traing Boards made for NSW Health. Taking lessons from the past the new training boards are just about to be put into the field Housing for Health training boards…
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June 10th, 2026
Cases of diphtheria in Australia have been rising since October 2025, with a sharp increase from February 2026. There have been 230 cases notified this year, roughly thirty times the…
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June 2nd, 2026
Housing for Health has now survey-fixed over 11,000 houses nationally since 1991. A huge milestone! Huge thanks to the hard work of literaly thousands of people over 40 years. Architects,…
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June 1st, 2026
Healthabitat Director David Donald recently spoke with Norman Swan and Dr Preeya Alexander on ABC Radio’s Health Report. LISTEN HERE The key points Healthabitat made were; Preserve and build on…
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May 7th, 2026
Northern Territory Government’s social housing application page states applicants may wait “years before you get an offer of social housing” depending on location and dwelling type. When housing supply requires…
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April 23rd, 2026
A regional housing and environmental health plan covering 17 Aboriginal communities across far western NSW explicitly uses Healthabitat’s Nine Healthy Living Practices as the assessment framework for documenting property condition…
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April 9th, 2026
Western Australia’s Aboriginal Environmental Health Model of Care, published in February 2025 by the Aboriginal Health Council of WA and WA Department of Health, explicitly embeds Healthabitat’s Nine Healthy Living…
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March 26th, 2026
Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, released September 2025, identifies infrastructure and built environment risks as high to very high by 2050. The assessment involved over 250 climate experts and…
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March 12th, 2026
A Medical Journal of Australia study has put a dollar figure on the well established fact: poor housing makes people sick, and fixing it saves money. Environmental risk factors—primarily water…
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