Travis Ryder hopes the government will help deal with safety hazards and depressing decay in his family's home town.
Residents of a northern town are pleading for assistance to upgrade housing after two people suffered electric shocks while living in dangerously run-down conditions.Residents are hoping to transition the houses to public housing managementCommunity leaders say the situation at the Burrinunga community in northern Western Australia demonstrates the failure of successive governments to deliver on promised improvements to living conditions at so-called Aboriginal reserves.
"We've been waiting almost a year now to try to have a meeting; we've sent emails, but we haven't got anything back," he said. Burrinunga is one of 37 town-based reserves in Western Australia which are the vestigial remains of segregationist town planning of the 20th century. Between 2008 and 2018, a sweep was done of all Aboriginal housing to try to bring it into line with the management of mainstream public housing stock.
Burrinunga resident Delphine Hudson Cox says the boarded up houses attract out-of-town drinkers who cause noise and mess.Electrocution is not the only hazard along the row of dilapidated houses; walk along the footpath and the stench of wastewater baking in the hot sun hangs in the air. He subsequently softened his position, but the controversy briefly pushed Aboriginal affairs policy into the international spotlight.
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