Sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia

Lea, Tess; Grealy, Liam; Moskos, Megan; Brambilla, Arianna; King, Stephanie; Habibis, Daphne; Benedict, Richard; Phibbs, Peter; Torzillo, Paul J.

doi:10.18408/ahuri7323701

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“…To "normalize" remote service provision, the Indigenous community-controlled housing sector was dismantled, replaced (under duress) by long-term government leases to Aboriginal land. Harsher tenancy arrangements became the condition for securing further housing and infrastructure funding (Grealy 2021). To avoid eviction, leaseholders had to cease large kin gatherings, manage noise, and keep the house "clean.…”

Section: Child Removal and Housingmentioning

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“…A vinyl laminate used to repel water throughout the bathroom cracks with the harsh waters, allowing stagnant pooling between the slab and the floor (Figure 5). Inheriting these army houses, the South Australian Housing Authority ("Housing SA") is atypical of remote housing property maintenance in its sustained attention to property maintenance (Lea et al 2021). Under Housing SA's regimen, APY Lands houses receive ten scheduled visits per year by various tradespeople, and known weaknesses in such mundane fittings as the toilet roll holder are fixed or replaced (Figure 6).…”

Section: Child Removal and Housingmentioning

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Washing and White Goods

Grealy

Lea

2023

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On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, an environmental health worker salvages discarded washing machines to reinstall in remote community homes. Tracking the fate of washing machines and householder well-being, this essay traces the militarized genealogies running contemporary settler colonial occupation in Australia. We are particularly interested in how the colonizing project decants militarized operations into the intimacies of domestic inhabitation. Where once this project facilitated a gendered labor reserve, today it enables the continued pathologization of Indigenous residents, such that renewed interferences and dispossessions may be authorized at policy convenience. This essay is a part of the Roundtable called “The Housewife’s Secret Arsenal” (henceforth HSA); a collection of eight object-oriented engagements focusing on particular material instantiations of domesticated war. The title of this roundtable is deliberately tongue-in-cheek reminding readers of the many ways that militarisms can be invisible to their users yet persistent in the form of mundane household items that aid in the labor of homemaking. Juxtaposing the deliberately stereotyped “housewife” with the theater of war raises questions about the quiet migration of these objects and technologies from battlefield to kitchen, or bathroom, or garden. Gathered together as an “arsenal,” their uncanny proximity to one another becomes a key critical tool in asking how war comes to find itself at home in our lives.

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Section: Child Removal and Housingmentioning

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Section: Child Removal and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Washing and White Goods

Grealy

Lea

2023

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“…• Housing and homelessness interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Brackertz, Davison et al 2017). Research on First Nations housing has included analyses of remote and regional housing, overcrowding, and the impact of poor housing quality on health, safety, education and employment outcomes, life chances, and intergenerational impacts of colonisation and trauma (Habibis, Phillips et al 2016;Lea, Grealy et al 2021). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children who have experienced domestic and family violence, especially in regional and remote areas, have very limited housing options and housing pathways in the aftermath of violence.…”

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Poverty and Australian housing: findings from an Investigative Panel

Liu,

Valentine,

Batterham

et al. 2023

AHURI Final Report

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AHURIAHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians.Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible.The research team acknowledges with thanks the insights of the Investigative Panel members who contributed to the findings of this report. DisclaimerThe opinions in this report reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Limited, its Board, its funding organisations or Inquiry Panel members. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Limited, its Board or funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI journalAHURI Final Report journal series is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy makers, researchers and practitioners. Peer review statementAn objective assessment of reports published in the AHURI journal series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material published is of the highest quality. The AHURI journal series employs a double-blind peer review of the full report, where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

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“…Most Australians take safe housing and uninterrupted electricity for granted. Yet in remote Indigenous communities, low quality poorly insulated housing and energy instability are common 1 . Most houses require prepaid power cards, resources are meagre, financial literacy is low, and people often have to choose between power and food.…”

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“…However, remote houses are outside of these two tiers and building contractors are not even required to be registered with the Building Practitioners Board 10 . As a result, many dwellings, particularly older ones, lack the basics — appropriate passive cooling design, structural integrity, insulation in ceiling cavities — and poor quality housing fiercely exacerbates energy poverty 1 . Particularly in areas of Australia where temperature extremes now extend for months, houses turn into heat caves, much like a car parked in the hot sun.…”

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