Reducing crowding and repairing social housing can decrease the risk of COVID-19 in remote Indigenous communities. It will bring other long-term benefits, too.
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Expanding on sustainable practices in remote parts of Australia can deliver great benefits to both local Indigenous owners and national and global communities.
As part of an upgrade of Auckland’s city centre, the council promises to include local Māori communities and their histories. But without addressing inequalities, it is no more than a token gesture.
We now have a proven model for supporting self-determined building on Aboriginal homelands. The next question is how can its reach be extended?
Centralised policies are not meeting the needs of remote Indigenous settlements. Increasing their decision-making input and the role of local industry can overcome the challenges of building remotely.
Amid a prolonged border dispute between Indonesia and Timor Leste, indigenous groups have signed an agreement to solve problems arising from the dispute.
“You can’t just come in like a fly and take-off” - patience and time on community is key to improving financial well-being in remote communities.
Inclusive innovation processes could be extremely valuable to low-income and disadvantaged communities in South Africa.
To deliver better housing for health, we must go back to what we know works, to the proven evidence-based solutions for design, construction, delivery and maintenance.
Some remote Australian communities have access to drinking water for only nine hours a day but can use ten times the average of urban households.
Cape York’s ecosystems are worth as much as the Queensland economy.
Across Indigenous Australia, innovation is occurring locally, under the radar of government policies and support. We can look to this innovation and stop fixating on finding the elusive policy solution.
Vegemite has been used for many things over the years. But claims it was used to brew alcohol in dry Indigenous communities had many asking if that was even possible.
In Indigenous communities beset by tragedy and social problems, the connection to each other and to the land remains a powerful source of shared contentment and happiness.
How to communicate across centuries of misunderstanding and dispossession.
Decisions being made from on high about the fate of remote Indigenous communities are symptomatic of a continuing imbalance in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The mess of federal budget negotiations has taken over the limited space for social policy debates. However, we are due to get final reports on a range of inquiries. These include the McClure report on…
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Professor, Director, Griffith University
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ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Research Scientist, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Advisor, Author and Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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NHMRC R.D. Wright Biomedical Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Researcher, James Cook University
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Research fellow, Deakin University
