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Day Two Agenda
Wednesday 22nd June, 2011

8.30
Welcome, coffee & networking
9.00
Welcome remarks from the Chairs
Lenore Dembski and Adeliesje Calma-Goodrem
Paperbark Women
Stronger Communities
9.10
The Canadian Aboriginal Housing Experience

  • From homelessness to home ownership
  • Devolution: Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Housing
  • Latest trend: non-government Partnerships
Andrew Leach, Chief Executive Officer
Aboriginal Housing Management Association
9.50
Working with the community for transformation & regeneration

  • The transformation process and overcoming negative perceptions
  • Social outcomes of changes to housing planning: Decline in crime rates, vandalism, increases in home ownership and long term reduction in maintenance costs
  • Planning for the future – building stronger communities
Mark Byrne
Area Director – Western
Department of Housing, NSW
10:30
CASE STUDY
Delivery of housing programs on the APY lands

  • Aboriginal employment and training
  • Tying together Commonwealth, state and local involvement
  • Ensuring successful implementation
David Bernard
Development Manager
(& former GBM Amata Community) &
Jude Allen
Program Manager Aboriginal Employment,
Housing SA
Department for Families and Communities, SA
11:10
Morning Tea & Networking
11.30
CASE STUDY
Improved housing as a gateway to stronger communities

  • Seeing the house as more than a shell: A holistic approach to housing and community development
  • Enabling more sustainable tenancies and offering affordable housing
  • Developing and supporting relationships across other agencies and organisations
Garry Gardiner
CEO
Yilli Rrueng Housing Aboriginal Corporation
12:05
CASE STUDY
Developing partnerships to tackle homelessness

  • Giving local people more options
  • Strategic partnerships to increase access to housing for Indigenous people
  • Holistic approaches to sustain tenancies
Dwayne Atkinson
Housing Services Manager
Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative
Remote housing
12.40
Is the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing program providing housing for health?

The presentation will present examples of how absence of detail in budgets, assessment of housing conditions, planning and a lack of attention to nationally endorsed design guidelines have diverted Australia's most ambitious Indigenous housing improvement program away from delivering significant housing or health benefits.

Paul Pholeros, Director
Healthabitat
1.15
Networking lunch
2.00
CASE STUDY
NSW Remote Aboriginal Housing Sector

  • Introduction to Murdi Paaki Regional Housing Corporation
  • Current status of the sector
  • NSW Government Reform strategy
  • Current development status of reform strategy
Ross Hampton, CEO &
Des Jones, Chair
Murdi Paaki Regional Housing Corporation
Toward home ownership
2.40
Enabling sustainable home ownership on communal lands in Queensland

  • Understanding the complexities of home ownership on communal lands
  • Identifying and addressing the barriers to home ownership on communal lands
  • Current progress
  • Enabling discussion on home ownership
Alan Shaw
Director, National and Indigenous Policy
Policy and Performance
Department of Communities, QLD
3.20
Afternoon tea & networking
3.50
CASE STUDY
Home ownership as part of the Cape York Welfare Reform Project

  • Policy design and investment in land administration to achieve home ownership and economic development in Cape York Indigenous communities
  • Progress to date
  • What still needs to be done?
Mick Schuele
Housing Stream Manager, Welfare Reform
Cape York Institute
4.30
Roundtable discussions
Delegates will break into groups to discuss the key challenges addressed over the course of the conference
5.10
Closing remarks from the chair & close of conference

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