“With non-Indigenous people everyone got their own house,” says Doris Lewis. “Indigenous people we’re all squashed up in one little house. We told government many times about this problem.” Lewis, a Warlpiri woman who has […]
There are more delays to the public release of the Northern Territory Government’s $2.4-million review of 43 Aboriginal town camps. The Government is still working out how to release the review, saying the consultant’s final […]
THE NT Government has released more details on its bid to increase public housing in Katherine and around the Territory by leasing private homes. Visiting a building site yesterday, Housing Minister Gerry McCarthy has urged […]
THE Gunner Government is looking to financially back property developers by guaranteeing them six year leases for the construction of new units for social housing. Housing Minister Gerry McCarthy said the Government had $2.4 million […]
IF the best measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable, the plight of the Territory’s homeless population marks us as a failure. In some parts of the Territory, the public housing […]
THE public housing complex at the centre of the Nightcliff anti-social behaviour problem could be part of a redevelopment with a private company. Residents and business owners believe Nightcliff’s anti-social behaviour problem stems from John […]
Katherine developers have been called on to consider leasing homes to the NT Government for use as public housing. The government wants to lease 200 homes across the NT for six year periods to reduce the […]
The NT has the worst rate of homelessness and overcrowding in the country but work has begun on extending homes in 21 remote indigenous communities. Rose Wurrguwurrgu’s home in Arnhem Land is so overcrowded some […]
Katherine’s alcohol restrictions are forcing people away from town, a liquor law inquiry was told today. The inquiry, being held in Katherine, was told there had been a “forced migration” of people to Darwin where […]
The Northern Territory Government has revealed it will need almost half a billion dollars in additional funding to deliver its promised 10-year $1.1-billion housing program for remote Indigenous communities. The Territory is counting on the […]
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