Nestled among the sheoak and banksia forest in Perth's north east lies a once bustling Aboriginal community at risk of fading into obscurity.
Planned as a model urban community, Cullacabardee was once filled with Indigenous families and playgrounds, but today it's virtually abandoned, with its few remaining residents facing an uncertain future.Cul-de-sacs occupied by single homes and paved driveways leading to empty lots are all that remain of Western Australia's forgotten Aboriginal "housing experiment".
Aboriginal families were resettled from makeshift camps on Perth's outskirts to conventional, double-bricked homes in Cullacabardee.Public housing was gradually knocked down and never rebuilt."That's due to the government wanting no people out here," she said. University of Sydney emeritus professor Peter Phibbs has studied affordable and Aboriginal housing over the last 30 years.
Ms Lewis said authorities fenced off the area about eight years ago, erecting asbestos warning signs. Cullacabardee is yet to be included in a landmark $1.3 billion native title settlement covering WA's South West.Inclusion in the settlement, struck between traditional owners and the WA Government in 2021, could provide new avenues of funding for development and housing at the community.
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