The federal and NT governments are still negotiating whether new houses can be built on homelands under the terms of a 'landmark' housing deal. But it comes as some homelands have already been waiting up to six years for repairs.
The NT government says it is pushing for new housing on homelands under a new, jointly funded $240 million deal with the federal government, announced this month.
Between 400 and 600 homelands or outstations surround the territory's remote communities, belonging to specific Aboriginal clan groups and held under land trusts established by the 1976 Aboriginal Land Rights Act. "I will continue to advocate through the Joint Steering Committee to use the $80m per year funding to include building new homes on Homelands," she said.for house repairs and maintenance in remote homelands, to be spent from mid-2024 to mid-2027, as part of a wider
Similarly, under a separate Commonwealth grant scheme for homeland repairs, just 41 of 172 NT homelands have had works completed since the scheme was announced in 2018, despite an original 2020 deadline. "They've got kids and sick people living in those houses. Half of them have rheumatic heart and diabetes."
Mr Ryan also said violence and conflict between disparate clan and language groups in NT regional centres such as Katherine were partly fuelled by a lack of adequate service delivery in traditional homelands.
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