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Newslines Radio: New houses for a growing Hermannsburg

Remote Australia Strategies

Having a house to live in is vital to good health, family, safety, community and jobs. Newslines Radio recently visited Hermannsburg, known in the local Western Arrarnta language as Ntaria, where more than 30 new houses have been built, as part of the National Partnership Agreement in Remote Indigenous Housing.

Providing communities with well-built houses and infrastructure, and maintaining them, is a critical part of Closing the Gap and will continue as an important part of the Australian Government’s Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory initiative.

Having a house to live in is vital to good health, family, safety, community and jobs.

Newslines Radio recently visited Hermannsburg, known in the local Western Arrarnta language as Ntaria, where more than 30 new houses have been built, as part of the National Partnership Agreement in Remote Indigenous Housing.

Hermannsburg is a growing community located about 130km south-west of Alice Springs. The new houses, along with refurbishments to some of the older houses, are helping to address overcrowding to make sure more families have a safe place to live.

“I was sharing with my two other sisters and our kids and our grandkids. It was just full on. But now it’s much better… I’m really happy to have my own house,” one of the new house tenants, Moana Kantawara said.

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Providing communities with well-built houses and infrastructure, and maintaining them, is a critical component of the Australian Government’s Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory initiative.

The recent construction of new houses and the refurbishments on existing houses in Hermannsburg have been funded by the Australian Government under the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing.

Better housing is a very important part of Closing the Gap. It is vital to good health, family, safety, community and jobs.