Health Hardware
May 29th, 2012
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
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
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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Australian ambassador to Nepal visits the sanitation project
April 14th, 2012
Greeted by the CHDS, the village construction team and the Bhattedande villagers Ms Grace embarked on some ‘toilet trekking’ around the village. Inspecting toilets, septic tank systems and the biogas…
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“More new houses in NT communities need repairs” ABC report
March 18th, 2012
Having documented poor construction in both new and upgraded houses, now other reports are starting to emerge about house construction quality. See the ABC report link and read more. These…
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Invisible housing
March 14th, 2012
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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Maintaining Indigenous houses in South Australia
March 9th, 2012
An interesting interview with one of the people charged with delivering these services to a remote location in the remote northern region of South Australia is attached. HH has underlined…
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Connecting the dots to where?
February 7th, 2012
Healthabitat presented a clear choice …….continue the current policy and implementation or make change based on proven results. For more discussion of the above brief points see the BIG ISSUE…
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Spot the problems?
December 18th, 2011
OK so let us look at a few of the issues raised in the article Is the transitional accommodation really tents, did the citizens of Elcho Island choose this and…
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Loss of Indigenous Housing Data
November 29th, 2011
A staff member of the AIHW revealed: We no longer have a contract with FaHCSIA to work on the FHBH data cubes, so will not be able to do any…
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The end of FHBH and the future
November 16th, 2011
The last 2-year contract was aimed at allowing state governments around Australia, now responsible for Indigenous housing, to use and integrate the Housing for Health method, principles and products into…
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Linking political accountability to equitable development
October 31st, 2011
Imagine if the procedures used by TI were applied to the largest Indigenous housing program for remote areas ever completed in Australia’s history. The attached outline of a Development Integrity…
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