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A new way to fix the hot mess of housing in remote Aboriginal Australia?

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The interior of a house with blue concrete walls and a mattress on a floor with people standing next to it
Wilya Janta Housing Collaboration wants to make housing in Tennant Creek more culturally safe and climate-appropriate.(Andrew Quilty (supplied))

Housing is a hot mess in many remote Aboriginal communities,  including Tennant Creek, and the rollercoaster of government policies and interventions hasn't helped the situation.

What's on offer is often culturally unsafe, crowded, and a climate disaster.

But housing is hard to fix too.

This group of Traditional Owners, health professionals, architects and others have a vision for how. 

This recording was an extract of a longer event organised by the Wilya Janta Housing Collaboration and held at the National Gallery of Victoria in October 2023.

Speakers

Norman Frank Jupurrurla
Warumungu elder
Co-founder Wilya Janta Housing Collaboration
Board member, Julalikari Council

Patricia Frank Narrurlu
Warumungu elder
Board member, Julalikari Council

Linda Turner ("LT") Napanangka
Warumungu and Warlmanpa elder
Chair of Julalikari Council, NT

Nicole Frank Nakamarra
Warumungu woman
Mother of four

Associate Professor Veronica Matthews
Quandamooka woman
University Centre for Rural Health
University of Sydney

Dr Simon Quilty
CEO, Wilya Janta Housing Collaboration
Medical doctor with 20 years' experience in the NT

Professor Paul Memmott
Anthropologist and architect
University of Queensland

Further info:

Wilya Janta (Standing Strong) Housing Collaboration

Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation

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Aboriginal Language, Housing Policy, Human Rights, Climate Change, Regional Communities
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