While exceptionally mobile by Australian standards, Aboriginal households in Dajarra, Alpurrurulam and Mt Isa are relatively stable in their customary attachment to their home community, local bush country, cultutal region and regional centre. According to this AHURI Research and Policy Bulletin, there is a need to balance the local provision of housing and other services...

The influence of housing costs on the economic well-being of Australian households at a regional level and the regional impact of housing assistance on financial disadvantage is as yet relatively unexplored.

The poor state of Indigenous housing in remote areas is generally acknowledged as one of Australia's most intractable housing problems. The thesis examines why the remote Indigenous housing system does not meet the housing needs of Indigenous people in remote areas and discusses an alternative system.

This paper outlines the need for change across all areas in remote Aboriginal communities: health, housing, education, employment and training, governance, Land Councils, business and funding. It sets out the policy reforms needed to reduce deprivation in remote Aboriginal communities.

Since the 1970s, Australia has been conducting a utopian socialist experiment with the lives of a generation of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australia. Helen Hughes and Jenness Warin argue that the resulting deprivation and misery of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can no longer be tolerated by wider Australia. New...