Physical environment
- Review of the impact of housing and health-related infrastructure on Indigenous health
- Policies and strategies
- Guidelines
- Programs and projects
- Health promotion resources
- Lessons learned
- Published resources
- Organisations
- Other information
- Related HealthInfoNet pages
Policies and strategies
2006
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
(2006)
The best way forward: delivering housing and infrastructure
to Indigenous Australians: Community Housing and Infrastructure
Program(CHIP) review, issues paper.
Canberra: Department of Families Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs
View
report (PDF - 393KB)
View website:
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Department of Housing and Works, Equal Opportunity Commission (2006)
Aboriginal housing: joint statement.
Perth: Department of Housing and Works & Equal Opportunity Commission
View
report (PDF - 636KB)
View website:
Department of Housing and Works
View
Aboriginal specific web pages
Western Australian Aboriginal Housing and Infrastructure Council
(2006)
Western Australia's operational plan for Indigenous housing,
infrastructure, and essential services, July 2006 - June 2007.
Perth: Department of Housing and Works
View
report (PDF - 3.7MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Housing and Works
View
Aboriginal specific web pages
2005
Northern Territory Department of Local Government, Housing and
Sport (2005)
Common policy framework: Northern Territory Indigenous housing
framework.
Darwin: Northern Territory Department of Local Government, Housing
and Sport
View
report (PDF - 181KB)
Northern Territory Department of Local Government Housing and Sport
(2005)
Agreement between the Australian Government and the Northern
Territory Government for the provision of housing and infrastructure
for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, December 2005 -
June 2008.
Darwin: Northern Territory Department of Local Government Housing
and Sport
View
report (PDF - 133KB)
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
(2005)
Report on Government services 2005: Indigenous compendium.
Melbourne: Productivity Commission
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HealthInfoNet abstract
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full report (PDF - 795KB)
2004
Australian National Audit Office (2004)
National Aboriginal Health Strategy: delivery of housing and infrastructure
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, follow-up
audit. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services.
Canberra: Australian National Audit Office
View
download information (HTML)
Western Australian Aboriginal Housing and Infrastructure Council
(2004)
Strategic plan 2003/04 - 2006/07, revised.
Perth: Department of Housing and Works
View
report (PDF - 420KB)
View website:
Department of Housing and Works
View
Aboriginal specific web pages
2003
Australian National Audit Office (2003)
National Aboriginal Health Strategy: delivery of housing and infrastructure
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, follow-up
audit.
Canberra: Australian National Audit Office
View
report (HTML)
Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (2003)
National Indigenous housing guide - improving the living environment
for safety, health and sustainability. 2nd Edition.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
View
download information (HTML)
View
contents (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 523KB)
2002
Aboriginal Housing and Infrastructure Unit, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Commission (2002)
An agreement for the provision of housing and infrastructure
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Western Australia
July 2002 - June 2007.
Perth: Aboriginal Housing and Infrastructure, Department of Housing
and Works, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
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report (PDF - 1.5MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Housing and Works
View
Aboriginal specific web pages
Queensland Health (2002)
The Queensland Health Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Environmental Health Strategy 2001-2006.
Brisbane: Queensland Department of Health
View
summary (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 316KB)
2000
enHealth (2000)
The National Environmental Health Strategy. Implementation plan.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
Chapter 3 contains information relating to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander communities
View
report (PDF - 733KB)
Queensland Health (2000)
Towards ... a Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
environmental health strategy. A scoping paper.
Brisbane: Queensland Health
View
report (PDF - 248KB)
Prior to 2000
Australian National Audit Office (1999)
National Aboriginal Health Strategy: delivery of housing and infrastructure
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
Canberra: Australian National Audit Office
View
report
Commonwealth, State and Territory Housing Ministers’ Working
Group on Indigenous Housing (1999)
National framework for the design, construction and maintenance
of Indigenous housing. Overview.
Canberra: Department of Family and Community Services
View
report (PDF - 36KB)
enHealth (1999)
The National Environmental Health Strategy.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Chapter 4 contains information relating to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander communities
View
report (PDF - 1.7MB - large file warning!)
Guidelines
Cammans J, Bond P, James N, Jarrett P, Langley A, Mangas S (1998)
Guidelines for the control of public health pests: lice, fleas,
scabies, bird mites, bedbugs and ticks.
Canberra: Department of Human Services
View
guidelines (PDF - 153KB)
Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (1999)
National framework for the design, construction and maintenance
of Indigenous housing: overview.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
View
report (PDF - 36KB)
Fien J, Charlesworth E, Lee G, Morris D, Baker D, et al. (2007)
Flexible guidelines for the design of remote Indigenous community
housing. (AHURI positioning paper no. 98)
Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
View
guidelines: AHURI (PDF - 278KB)
View website:
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (nd)
NACCHO position on environmental health.
Retrieved 9 August 2005 from http://www.naccho.org.au/Enviromental.html
View
position statement (HTML)
National Public Health Partnership (2002)
Guidelines for the development, implementation and evaluation
of national public health strategies in relation to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples: approaches and recommendations.
Melbourne: National Public Health Partnership
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guidelines (PDF - 380KB)
Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment
(2003)
Guidelines for the siting, design, and management of solid waste
disposal sites in the Northern Territory.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
View
guidelines (PDF - 362KB)
Queensland Health (2004)
Guidelines to report major environmental health issues to Queensland
Health.
Brisbane: Queensland Department of Health
These guidelines provide guidance to Indigenous environmental health
workers on how to report major environmental health issues to Queensland
Health
View
guidelines (PDF - 40KB)
Territory Health Services (2001)
Environmental health standards for remote communities in the
Northern Territory.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
View
download information (HTML)
Wayte K, Bailie R, Gray N, Henderson G (2004)
Framework for research on Aboriginal health and the physical
environment.
Casuarina: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Open
CRCAH library search (enter publication
title)
Programs and projects
Cairnduff S, Guthridge S (2002)
Exploring Indigenous home management programs in the Northern
Territory.
Casuarina: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
View
HealthInfoNet abstract
Open
CRCAH library search (enter publication
title)
Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1998)
Aboriginal communities development program.
Sydney: Department of Aboriginal Affairs
View
information (HTML)
Department of Aboriginal Affairs (2003)
ATSIC Army Community Assistance Program (AACAP).
Perth: Department of Aboriginal Affairs
View
information (HTML)
Urbis Keys Young, Department of Health and Ageing (2002)
Accountability in Indigenous environmental health services -
Australia 2002. Indigenous environmental health mapping project.
Milsons Point: enHealth
View
report (PDF - 616KB)
Roberts C, Burgess L (2004)
National Family Homelessness Project: a longitudinal research
project on Aboriginal homelessness in Perth, Western Australia.
Perth: Centrecare
View
download information (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 915KB)
Territory Health Services
Territory Health Services - environmental health program.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
View
information (HTML)
University of Western Sydney (2000)
Indigenous communities environmental health workforce capacity
building program.
Penrith South: University of Western Sydney
View
project website
Young S, Wallace A, Pigott R, Reed-Gilbert K, Craigie C (1998)
Homelessness in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context
and its possible implications for the Supported Accommodation Assistance
Program.
Department of Health and Family Services
View
download information (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 2.4MB - large file warning!)
Health promotion resources
Centre for Appropriate Technology (2004)
My job: better environmental health - the video.
Alice Springs: Centre for Appropriate Technology
Produced by CAT Productions for the Health Department of Western Australia, NT Department of Health and Community Services, Department of Health and Ageing, and the Inter-Government Working Group (WA), this 42 minute video is suitable for anyone interested in environmental health in remote Indigenous communities. The video provides an informative look at the working life of Aboriginal environmental health workers (EHWs) and others who work in environmental health. Filmed on location in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the video offers a light-hearted insight into the challenges and rewards on the path to achieving better environmental health.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
For further information about the video or to obtain copies contact: Centre for Appropriate Technology Inc., PO Box 8044, Alice Springs NT 0871, ph: (08) 8951 4311, fax: (08) 8951 4333, email: cat.productions@icat.org.au
Human Services Training Advisory Council (2004)
Livin' in a house.
Darwin: Human Services Training Advisory Council
The Livin' in a house CD-ROM was developed through collaboration between the Human Services Training Advisory Council in Darwin, Skinnyfish Music, and George Rrurrambu. George Rrurrambu is an elder of the Gumatj clan and a musician. He has written the song on the CD-ROM to support and promote the work of Indigenous environmental health workers in remote Aboriginal communities. His own message is 'grow strong'.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
For further information about the CD or to obtain copies contact:
Human Services Training Advisory Council, 2nd Floor
Darwin Plaza, Smith Street, Darwin NT 0801 (postal address: GPO
Box 1557, Darwin NT 0801) ph: (08) 8981 2550, fax: (08) 8981 9822,
email: hstac@hstac.com.au,
website: http://www.hstac.com.au
Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC) (2006)
Protective behaviours community way [resource package].
[S.I.]: Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC)
Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC), Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) and Health Promotion Unit (HPU) have launched a Protective behaviours community way package. The resource is a safety package developed for children to assist in the prevention of child abuse by helping them to deal with their problems and find the right sort of help to keep themselves safe. The package aims to make children strong and to feel safe in their home and community and is designed to be used as an educational program by families, teachers, health workers or community groups with children.
The package consists of:
Protective behaviours book 1, book 2 and book 3
- 1 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous theme 1 We all have the right to feel safe all the time
- 1 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous theme 2 Nothing is so awful that we can't talk with someone about it
- 1 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous magic hand network
- 1 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous magic hand network
- 1 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous protective behaviours
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous feeling safe (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non -Indigenous feeling safe (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous feeling unsafe (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous feeling unsafe (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous early warning signs (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous early warning signs (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous I'm the boss of my body (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous I'm the boss of my body (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous feeling safe worksheets (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous feeling safe worksheets (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated Indigenous feeling unsafe worksheets (male and female)
- 2 x A3 full-colour laminated non-Indigenous feeling unsafe worksheets (male and female)
- 2 x A4 black and white feeling safe worksheets can be photocopied (male and female)
- 2 x A4 black and white feeling unsafe worksheets can be photocopied (male and female)
- 1 x A4 black and white magic hand network worksheet (can be photocopied)
The health promotion resources are laminated for durability and are suitable for use in health care settings by health workers and other health professionals.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
The cost of the package is $100.00 plus GST and $10.95 postage.
- For further information about the resource or to obtain a copy:
- Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC)
View website: Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC)
- Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC)
- Contact details:,
- Marie Cox, Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) and Health Promotion Unit (HPU), Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council (KAMSC), PO Box, 1377, Broome Western Australia, 6725, ph: (08) 9192 6435, fax: (08) 9192 6127, email: MarieC@kamsc.org.au
Phelan, S. (2008)
Conducting dog health programs in Indigenous communities: a veterinary guide.
Nightcliff, NT: AMRRIC
This manual contains practical information on establishing culturally appropriate and sustainable dog programs in Indigenous communities. It is intended for veterinarians, environmental health workers, local government and organisations and individuals interested in the health and wellbeing of animals, their owners and their communities.
This is the only such guide currently available. The manual has been written by Dr Samantha Phelan, a Northern Territory-based veterinarian with significant field experience in remote Indigenous communities.
The manual is web-based and free to AMRRIC (Animal Management in Rurual and Remote Communities) members until June 08. AMMRIC is seeking funds to provide a print version; please contact AMMRIC if you are able to assist.
- Further information
- Contact details:
- AMRRIC, PO Box 1591, Nightcliff, NT 0814, ph: (08) 8941 8813, mobile 0428485436, email: info@amrric.org
Wadeye Environmental Health Department
(nd)
Wadeye environmental health workers' presentation: improving
health in Wadeye.
Wadeye: Wadeye Environmental Health Department
These presentations have been developed by Wadeye environmental health workers and prepared for the Internet by the HealthInfoNet for the purposes of promoting good health. The Wadeye Environmental Health Department has given permission for the following information to be copied and distributed freely as long as its use is acknowledged and is for non-commercial purposes.
For further information about the resource contact
the Wadeye Aboriginal Community, email:kardu@octa4.net.au,
website: http://www.indiginet.com.au/wadeye/
Lessons learned
Hoy W, Vanbuynder P, Mathews J, Pugsley D, Wang Z (2001)
Renal disease and the environment: lessons from Aboriginal Australia.
Nephrology;6:19-24
View
Nephrology abstract (HTML)
Office of Aboriginal Health (2002)
The Aboriginal Environmental Health Program in Western Australia
- successful solutions to difficult problems.
Perth: Western Australia Department of Health
View
full report (PDF - 2.9MB - large file warning!)
Case studies
Jardine-Orr A, Spring F, Anda M (2004)
Indigenous housing and governance: case studies from remote
communities in WA and NT, final report.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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information (HTML)
Jardine-Orr A, McGrath N, Spring F, Anda M (2003)
Indigenous housing and governance: case studies from remote communities
in WA and NT.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
View
information (HTML)
Evaluations
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
(2006)
Evaluation of Fixing Houses for Better Health Projects 2, 3
and 4. (Occasional paper no.14)
Canberra: Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 22KB)
View website:
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Walker R, Ballard J, Taylor C (2003)
Developing paradigms and discourses to establish more appropriate
evaluation frameworks and indicators for housing programs.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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full report (PDF - 304KB)
Walker R, Ballard J, Taylor C (2002)
Investigating appropriate evaluation methods and indicators for
Indigenous housing programs: positioning paper.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
View
full report (PDF - 302KB)
Published resources
Journal articles
2008
Phelan S (2008)
AMRRIC manual: conducting dog health programs in Indigenous communities: a veterinary guide.
Darwin: Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities
View website: Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities
(manual is available online for members only, membership is free)
Torzillo PJ, Pholeros P, Rainow S, Barker G, Sowerbutts T, et al. (2008)
The state of health hardware in Aboriginal communities in rural and remote Australia.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;32(1):7-11
View article: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (PDF - 184KB)
View website: Blackwell Synergy
2007
Ehsani JP, Bailie R (2007)
Feasibility and costs of water fluoridation in remote Australian Aboriginal communities.
BMC Public Health ;7:Article 100.
View article: BMC Public Health (HTML)
View article: BMC Public Health (PDF - 247KB)
View website: PubMed Central
Klessa B, Schobben X, Mullins A, O'Brien K, Cufley J, et al. (2007)
The big wet: Kunbarllanjnja (Oenpelli), Jabiru Outstations (Patonga and Mudginberri), Corroboree, Marrakai and Adelaide River Township floods March 2007: public health response.
Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin;14(1):28-31
View article: Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin (PDF - 982KB)
View website: Department of Health and Community Services
2006
Bailie RS, Wayte KJ (2006)
Housing and health in Indigenous communities: key issues for housing
and health improvement in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;14(5):178-183
View
abstract: Australian Journal of Rural Health
View
website: Blackwell Synergy (Blackwell Publishing)
Senior K, Chenhall R, McRae-Williams E, Daniels D, Rogers K (2006)
Dogs and people in Aboriginal communities: exploring the relationship
within the context of the social determinants of health.
Environmental Health;6(4)
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abstract: Environmental Health (HTML)
2005
Bailie RS, Stevens MR, McDonald E, Halpin S, Brewster D, et al.
(2005)
Skin infection, housing and social circumstances in children living
in remote Indigenous Australian communities: testing conceptual
and methodological approaches.
BMC Public Health;5:Article 128.
Available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Burgess CP, Johnston FH, Bowman DMJS, Whitehead PJ (2005)
Healthy country: healthy people?: exploring the health benefits
of Indigenous natural resource management.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;29(2):117-122
View
abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2004
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (2004)
5th National Indigenous Environmental Health
Conference
Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin;4(4): Current topics
2
View
current topic: HealthBulletin
Bailie RS, Carson BE, McDonald EL (2004)
Water supply and sanitation in remote Indigenous communities - priorities
for health development.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health; 28(5):
409-414
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View
abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Memmott P (2004)
Aboriginal housing: has the state of the art improved?
Architecture Australia;93(1):46-48
View article: Architecture Australia
2003
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (2003)
Commonwealth funding for new and improved Indigenous health facilities
Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin;3(2):Current topic 2
View current topic: HealthBulletin
Gracey M, Cullinane J (2003)
Gastroenteritis and environmental health among Aboriginal infants
and children in Western Australia.
Journal of Paediatric Child Health;39(6):427-431
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
2002
Bailie RS (2002)
Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications
for health improvement.
Medical Journal of Australia;176:503.
View article: Medical Journal of Australia (HTML)
View article: Medical Journal of Australia (PDF - 236KB)
View website: Medical Journal of Australia
Torzillo PJ, Pholeros P (2002)
Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications
for health improvement [letter].
Medical Journal of Australia;176:502-503
View article: Medical Journal of Australia (HTML)
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article: Medical Journal of Australia (PDF - 236KB)
View website: Medical Journal of Australia
2001
Bailie RS, Runcie MJ (2001)
Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications
for health improvement.
Medical Journal of Australia;175:363-366
View article: Medical Journal of Australia
View website: Medical Journal of Australia
Hoy W, Vanbuynder P, Mathews J, Pugsley D, Wang Z (2001)
Renal disease and the environment: lessons from Aboriginal Australia.
Nephrology;6:19-24
View
abstract: Nephrology
Prior to 2000
Jenkins D, Power K (1996)
Human hydatitosis in New South Wales and the Australian Capital
Territory, 1987-1992.
Medical Journal of Australia;164:18-21
View article: Medical Journal of Australia
View website: Medical Journal of Australia
Reports and publications
2008
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
State owned and managed Indigenous housing 2006-07: Commonwealth State Housing Agreement national data report. (AIHW cat. no. HOU 171)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 206KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
2007
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (2007)
Home ownership and Indigenous Australians: discussion paper.
Melbourne: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.
View report
View website: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2007)
Indigenous housing indicators 2005-06. (AIHW Catalogue no. HOU 168)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 589KB)
View report (HTML)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Fien J, Charlesworth E, Lee G, Morris D, Baker D, et al. (2007)
Flexible guidelines for the design of remote Indigenous community
housing. (AHURI positioning paper no. 98)
Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
View
guidelines: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (PDF - 278KB)
View website:
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (2007)
Living in the sunburnt country: Indigenous housing: findings of the review of the Community Housing and Infrastructure Programme, final report.
Canberra: Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 1.3MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Von Behrens T (2007)
Understanding Aboriginal Australians for more effective provision of home modification services.
Sydney: Home Modification Information Clearinghouse, University of Sydney
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 292KB)
View website: Home Modification Information Clearinghouse
2006
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
(2006)
Native title report 2005.
Sydney: Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 8.9MB - large file warning!)
Alice Springs Town Camp Task Force (2006)
Discussion paper.
Alice Springs: Northern Territory Government, Department of Local
Government, Housing and Sport
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report (Word doc - 1.6MB - large file warning!)
Altman JC (2006)
In search of an outstations policy for Indigenous Australians.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 1.5MB large file warning! )
View
website: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (2006)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework
report 2006.
Canberra: Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 1.81MB - large file warning!)
Chapter 5 (Determinants of health) contains information about housing
View
website: Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
(OATSIH)
Australian Medical Association (2006)
Undue punishment?: Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders in prison: an unacceptable reality.
Barton, ACT: Australian Medical Association
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 196KB)
View The good news report (PDF - 153KB)
View website: Australian Medical Association
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006)
Australia's health 2006: the tenth biennial health report of the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (AIHW Catalogue
no. AUS 73) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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HealthInfoNet abstract
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report (HTML)
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section 4.5: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (PDF
- 526KB)
View website: Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006)
State owned and managed Indigenous housing 2005–06: Commonwealth State housing agreement national data reports.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 274KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Biddle N, Hunter BH (2006)
Factors associated with internal migration: a comparison between
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 3.8MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
(2006)
Evaluation of Fixing Houses for Better Health Projects 2, 3
and 4. (Occasional paper no.14)
Canberra: Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 22KB)
View website:
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
(2006)
The best way forward: delivering housing and infrastructure
to Indigenous Australians: Community Housing and Infrastructure
Program(CHIP) review, issues paper.
Canberra: Department of Families Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs
View
report (PDF - 393KB)
View website:
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Department of Indigenous Affairs (2006)
Australian approaches to accommodating visitors from remote communities to regional towns.
Perth: Department of Indigenous Affairs
View report (PDF – 182KB)
View website: Department of Indigenous Affairs, Western Australia
EnHealth Council (2006)
Indigenous environmental health: report of the Fifth National
Conference 2004.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
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report (HTML)
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report (PDF - 2.4MB - large file warning!)
Hall J, Berry M (2006)
Indigenous housing: assessing the long term costs and the optimal
balance between recurrent and capital expenditure.
Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 947KB)
View website:
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Kalkadoon.org (2006)
Out of the box: housing as a lifestyle, not a building: a vision
of architecture and town planning to facilitate prosperity in remote
Aboriginal communities.
s.l.: Kalkadoon.org
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report
View website: Kalkadoon.org
Kalkadoon.org (2006)
Doing housing.
Kalkadoon.org
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (HTML)
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report (PDF - 144KB)
View website:
Kalkadoon.org
McDougall S (2006)
Palm Island: future directions: resource officer report.
Brisbane: Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
(DATSIP)
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 1.1MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
Pleshet N (2006)
Viability analysis for desert settlement and economy: value
in and of desert Australia. (Working paper 1)
Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge CRC
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 840KB)
View
website: Desert Knowledge CRC
Pleshet N (2006)
Viability analysis for desert settlement and economy: the transport
and mobility interface. (Working paper 2)
Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge CRC
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 1.37MB - large file warning!)
View
website: Desert Knowledge CRC
2005
Altman J, Linkhorn C, Clarke J (2005)
Land rights and development reform in remote Australia.
Melbourne: Oxfam Australia
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 3.3MB - large file warning!)
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare (2005)
Health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples 2005.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian
Bureau of Statistics
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current topic: HealthBulletin
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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Chapter 2: Demographic, social and emotional context (PDF -
421KB)
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Chapter 4: Housing circumstances (PDF - 724KB)
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full report (PDF - 5.2MB - large file warning!)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Commonwealth-State housing agreement national data reports 2003-04:
crisis accommodation program.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 72KB)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports 2003-04:
state owned and managed Indigenous housing.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports 2003-04:
public rental housing.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Indigenous housing indicators 2003–04.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Indigenous housing needs 2005: a multi-measure needs model.
(AIHW Cat no. HOU 129)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Cooper L, Morris M (2005)
Sustainable tenancy for Indigenous families: what services and
policy supports are needed?: final report.
Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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Department of Health and Ageing (2005)
National strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health 2003-2013: Australian Government implementation plan 2003-2008.
Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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Department of Indigenous Affairs (2005)
Service provision to Aboriginal people in the town of Derby
- West Kimberley.
Perth: Department of Indigenous Affairs, Government of Western Australia
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report (PDF - 703KB)
Environmental Health Needs Coordinating Committee (2005)
Environmental health needs of Indigenous communities in Western
Australia: the 2004 survey and its findings.
Perth: Government of Western Australia
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Foster D, Mitchell J, Ulrik J, Williams R (2005)
Population and mobility in the town camps of Alice Springs.
(DK-CRC report no. 9)
Alice Springs: Tangentyere Council Research Unit, Desert Knowledge
Cooperative Research Centre
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report (PDF - 6.9MB - large file warning!)
Gray MC, Altman JC, Halasz N (2005)
The economic value of wild resources to the Indigenous community
of the Wallis Lake catchment. (Discussion Paper No. 272/2005)
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
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Queensland Health (2005)
Strategic policy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people's health 2005-2010.
Brisbane: State of Queensland, Queensland Health
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Sanders W (2005)
Housing tenure and Indigenous Australians in remote and settled
areas.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
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2004
Australasia Economics (2004)
Key social and economic indicators for Indigenous Australia:
a comparative analysis.
Canberra: Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, Australian Government
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Australian National Audit Office (2004)
National Aboriginal health strategy delivery of housing and
infrastructure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
follow-up audit: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services.
Canberra: Australian National Audit Office
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Department of Community Development, Sport, and Cultural Affairs
(2004)
National issues in Indigenous housing 2004/05 and beyond. Position
paper developed by the Northern Territory Government.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
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report (PDF - 860KB)
Roberts C, Burgess L (2004)
National Family Homelessness Project: a longitudinal research
project on Aboriginal homelessness in Perth, Western Australia.
Perth: Centrecare
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Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
(2004)
Report on Government services 2004: Indigenous compendium.
Melbourne: Productivity Commission
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Wayte K, Bailie R, Gray N, Henderson G (2004)
Framework for research on Aboriginal health and the physical
environment.
Casuarina: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
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CRCAH library search (enter publication
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2003
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003)
Aboriginal Rental Housing Program data manual 2001- 02
(Appendix A).
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003)
Commonwealth-State housing agreement national data reports 2001-02:
Aboriginal rental housing.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Jardine-Orr A, McGrath N, Spring F, Anda M (2003)
Indigenous housing and governance: case studies from remote communities
in WA and NT.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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Morrow T, Cowham P (2003)
Submission to Alice Springs Town Council Waste Management Committee
- waste management initiatives for town camps.
Alice Springs: Tangentyre Council and Centre for Appropriate Technology
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report (PDF - 156KB)
Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment
(2003)
Guidelines for the siting, design, and management of solid waste
disposal sites in the Northern Territory.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
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report (PDF - 362KB)
Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth Service Provision
(2003)
Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage: key indicators 2003.
Canberra: Productivity Commission
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Stephenson P (2003)
Environmental health planning and action: a handbook for Indigenous
practitioners.
Richmond: Batchelor Press
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Tropical Health Working Group of the Top End Division of General
Practice (2003)
Tropical health in the Top End: an introduction for health practitioners.
Darwin: Top End Division of General Practice
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Walker R, Ballard J, Taylor C (2003)
Developing paradigms and discourses to establish more appropriate
evaluation frameworks and indicators for housing programs.
Perth: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Western
Australia Research Centre
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Walker V, Ireland M (2003)
Sustainable housing for traditional living Aboriginal people
moving to Adelaide: Malpa-Kutjara: two friends.
Canberra: Department of Family and Community Services
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report (PDF - 219KB)
2002
Bailie R, Siciliano F, Dane G, Bevan L, Paradies Y, Carson B (2002)
Atlas of health-related infrastructure in discrete Indigenous
communities.
Melbourne: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
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abstract: HealthBulletin
Cairnduff S, Guthridge S (2002)
Exploring Indigenous home management programs in the Northern
Territory.
Casuarina: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical
Health
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enHealth (2002)
Accountability in Indigenous Environmental Health Services -
Australia 2002.
Milsons Point: Department of Health and Ageing
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report (PDF - 616KB)