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A working shower for all Australians? - What is the problem?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Forum

Weds 17th October 2012 - 6pm for 6.30pm

Teachers Federation Conference Centre
37 Reservoir St, Surry Hills Sydney


Speakers:

Jeff McMullen, Formerly Four Corners
Paul Pholeros, Healthabitat
Sarah Marland, Amnesty International

The current rate of working showers in over 7,400 Aboriginal houses tested around Australia is only 35%. Evidence assembled over the last 2 years points to this rate dropping to 28% by 2018. How could this be possible given the current $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing?

For AIA Media Release of 4 October 12: please click here

For the Forum flyer: please click here

Video preview of Forum by Paul Pholeros, Healthhabitat:

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Housing Forum 5 min preview 2012 on Vimeo.

Includes a panel of high profile speakers who will address concerns about the following:

* Building standards in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing
* Human Rights and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in remote Homelands.

"For over three years Amnesty International has partnered with the communities of the Utopia homelands to develop reports to drive campaigning on this issue"

Presented by: Amnesty International NSW Demand Dignity Group:
http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/group/21121/

For more information see http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29666/

Videos from the event:

1. Jeff McMullen

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Forum - Jeff McMullen on Vimeo.

2. Sarah Marland

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Forum - Sarah Marland on Vimeo.

3. Paul Pholeros

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Forum - Paul Pholeros on Vimeo.

Background Info:

Amnesty International - Canberra Forum on Homelands - August 2012 -
Please click here

Amnesty International - Human Rights and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in remote homelands. -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/

Amnesty International - Our report: Aboriginal Peoples’ right to homelands - 9 August 2011 -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/26216

Homelands NITV News doco - 25 minutes doco
http://www.nitv.org.au/fx-program.cfm?pid=185A4854-AD63-F9CF-49B422463E33E570&sid=B6DDD5B7-D228-BDA9-639664DCCC20B2B7

Homelands NITV News - 30 seconds
www.nitv.org.au/fx-program.cfm?pid=185A4854-AD63-F9CF-49B422463E33E570

Paul Pholeros’ at Amnesty in the Alehouse
http://vimeo.com/43178391

Health Habitat’s website
http://www.healthabitat.com/

Health Habitat - Recipient of the World Habitat's Award 2011
http://www.healthabitat.com/events-page/world-habitat-award-winner-2011

1 Aug - Paul Pholeros: Aboriginal Housing: Needs, Rights & Practicals - video
http://www.reconciliation4westernsydney.org/index.php/building-bridges-2012/additional-information

Bev Manton’s message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-GJYA7Hqc

The Northern Territory Coordinator-General for Remote Services (NTCGRIS) fifth report - June 2011 to August 2012 - Chapter 5, Housing, Infrastructure and Leasing -
http://www.rdia.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/144941/Chapter5_7_Housing,_infrastructure_and_leasing.pdf

For more info on NTCGRIS:
http://stoptheintervention.org/facts/press-releases/damning-nt-report-shows-income-management-must-go-1-10-12

Demand Dignity Newsletter July 2011 - Issue 17 -
http://www.fotoimage.it/bbb/file_content/fl19.pdf

People on Country Vital Landscapes Indigenous Futures - Edited by Jon Altman and Seán Kerins -
http://caepr.anu.edu.au/publications/others/pocmonograph.php#launch

ABC News - Amnesty slams 'shocking' Indigenous conditions - 10 Oct 2011 -
Amnesty International says the Federal Government needs to be internationally shamed into addressing poverty among Indigenous Australians. ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-09/amnesty-slams-indigenous-conditions/3403030

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) - http://www.ahuri.edu.au/themes/indigenous_housing/

Free Western Sydney Housing Coalition Conference - 14 Nov 2012, Auburn - http://www.communitynet.tricomm.org.au/index.php/events/conferences-a-seminars/59530-western-sydney-housing-coalition-conference-14-nov-2012-auburn


Event listed at following websites:

http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29666/

http://www.facebook.com/events/476229052408419/

http://www.communitynet.tricomm.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59443:aboriginal-a-torres-strait-islander-housing-forum-17-oct-2012-surry-hills&catid=107:meetings-a-forums&Itemid=115

http://www.eventfinder.com.au/2012/sustainable-indigenous-housing-forum-with-associate-professo/sydney/central-cbd

http://nsw.greens.org.au/content/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-housing-forum-working-shower-all-australians

http://sydney-central.whereilive.com.au/events/story/sustainable-indigenous-housing-forum/

http://sdc.groupsite.com/calendar/list?month=10&print=1&year=2012

http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/events/2012/10/

http://indymedia.org.au/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-housing-forum-17-oct-12

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/10/01/sydney-and-nsw-aboriginal-rights-events-for-your-diary-7-events-from-8-october-2012

http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index2.php?option=com_events&task=view_highlights&Itemid=50&pop=1

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Paul Pholeros (Health Habitat)
speaks at the ‘Amnesty in the Alehouse’ panel discussion on NT homelands held at the Steyne Hotel, Manly on 2.5.2012.

Paul Pholeros at 'Amnesty in the Alehouse' on Vimeo.

Homelands and Homelessness

NSW Parliament House
Theatrette and Jubilee Room,
6 Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW, 2000

 

Contact: amnesty.centralcoast@gmail.com

 

For the flyer: please click here

 

For the media release: please click here

A host of high profile speakers will flock to NSW Parliament House for Amnesty International's Homelands and Homelessness night.

The night will feature a screening of the film, 'Our Generation', followed by a panel discussion.

The panel will address concerns about the 105,000 homeless people currently struggling to survive in Australia. It will also discuss the human rights problems experienced by indigenous persons living in remote Homelands.

Speakers will include:

• Sarah Marland;
• John Dowd AO (Chancellor of Southern Cross University and former NSW Attorney General)

http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/29438/

Background Info

Amnesty International - Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands - http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/dontabandonhomelands/

Amnesty International - Our report: Aboriginal Peoples’ right to homelands - 9 August 2011 -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/26216

Amnesty International - Homelands mega update - 26 September 2012 -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/leader/comments/29839/?utm_source=leader_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=26Sep2012

Amnesty International - Why does government policy in remote Australia tend to fail spectacularly? - 17 September 2012 -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/29739/

Amnesty International - About our campaign for Indigenous Peoples Rights - 25 June 2012 -
http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/24406/

Amnesty International School Action Pack - October 2011 -
http://salvos.org.au/scribe/sites/children/files/SAGALA/Missionary%20Project/AIA_School_Action_Pack_-_October_2011.pdf

Ears2theground - Don’t Destroy Homelands, Says Amnesty -
http://ears2theground.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/homelands-need-support-says-amnesty/

Homeless Persons Protocol - http://www.housing.nsw.gov.au/Help+with+Housing/Homelessness/Homeless+Persons+Protocol.htm

Homelessness Australia - Policy - http://www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au/site/policy.php

Housing NSW - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander - http://www.housing.nsw.gov.au/Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander/

The Australian - $27 a week for a bed by the chook house - 20 August 2012 -
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/a-week-for-a-bed-by-the-chook-house/story-fn9hm1pm-1226453693269

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - Strategic Indigenous housing and infrastructure program (now incorporated under the National partnership agreement on remote Indigenous housing) -
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/key-resources/programs-projects?pid=554

NT Government, Department of Housing - National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing -
http://www.housing.nt.gov.au/remotehousing/strategic_indigenous_housing_and_infrastructure_program

NT Government - Department of Housing, Local Government and Regional Services - http://www.dhlgrs.nt.gov.au/