The NT Supreme Court ruled that the Housing Department has a duty to provide safe drinking water to tenants. The government is appealing.
For many years Aboriginal people living in the remote Northern Territory community of Laramba unknowingly drank water containing high levels of uranium. In an important victory for renters and remote Indigenous communities, the NT Supreme Court ruled in October last year that the public housing landlord, the Territory's Housing Department, is legally required to supply safe drinking water to its tenants. But the NT Government is appealing that decision.
"So I think in those circumstances, all you can deduce is that the government is not doing much to try and help people in this situation, and seems to be trying to avoid any legal obligation to do so." In 2016, public housing tenants of the remote community of Ltyentye Apurte , 85 kilometres south-east of Alice Springs, took their landlord, the NT Government, to court for not providing habitable homes.
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