We host an annual conference

Logo of the Aboriginal Housing & Homelands conference, Mparntwe 9–12 April 2024, showing a brown bower bird with a pink streak down the back of its neck, standing in front of a nest laden with small green, blue and white baubles

A highlight of our calendar is the annual Aboriginal Housing and Homelands Conference. In April 2023 we hosted the inaugural conference on Larrakia country, in Garramilla (Darwin) – see the report (PDF, 3mb). Above is the artwork Trent Lee made for the conference.

In 2024 our second conference was in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) alongside the Parrtjima festival on the theme of:

building a strong, self-determined Aboriginal housing and homelands sector in the Northern Territory

As well as these esteemed keynote speakers we heard from people with knowledge and experience of:

  • Aboriginal-led design and construction
  • water security
  • homelessness
  • shelter for preventing violence against women and youth
  • good design (climatically and culturally)
  • sector strengthening
  • homelands
  • community living areas and town camps

In all we heard 53 presentations (including 9 keynotes and 44 presentations in concurrent sessions). We also showed a video that Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation produced in 1988 called House Business, and mounted a photographic exhibition called Housing changes, showing 33 photos of Aboriginal housing from 1877 to 2023.

> Conference website
> Presentations
> Photographic exhibition

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