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‘Waiting for too long’: Why Miriam Charlie photographs overcrowded Indigenous housing

The Yanyuwa Garrwa artist and Polaroid photographer from Borroloola in the Northern Territory uses her camera to document the state of housing in her home town

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The Northern Territory government has spent $2.65bn over the past 15 years to improve the quality of housing in remote Indigenous communities, but overcrowding remains a problem and many houses need repairs.

Under the national partnership for remote housing Northern Territory policy, the government was supposed to improve housing conditions and reduce overcrowding in 73 remote communities and 17 town camps around Alice Springs. But the most recent data on overcrowding in remote communities managed by the national partnership reveals it has only been reduced by 3.2% in five years.

Top: Miriam Charlie photographing her eldest daughter, Jade, and other family at Yanyuwa camp
Bottom: Miriam photographing her grandmother, Dinah Norman, who waited more than 10 years for a new home at Yanyuwa camp

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Topic: [The Guardian] ‘Waiting for too long’: Why Miriam Charlie photographs overcrowded Indigenous housing (Read 933 times)

[The Guardian] ‘Waiting for too long’: Why Miriam Charlie photographs overcrowded Indigenous housing

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