Endnotes

This table has been developed by SGS as an update of a table that first appeared in Thomson, N (ed.) 2003, The Health of Indigenous Australians, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.
ABS 2002; AIHW 2004.
Based on Read (ed.) 2000.
The latest available funding data for Indigenous housing are for the fiscal year 2003-04 and predate the transfer of ATSIC programs to mainstream agencies.
The bilateral agreements are designed to provide better coordination and parity for the funding of Indigenous housing.
Source: SGS 2004.
Dr Fred Hollows is credited as the main proponent of this philosophy of combining research with service. See Hollows, F and Corris, P 1991, Fred Hollows: an autobiography (with Peter Corris), Kerr Publishing, Richmond, Victoria.
Department of Family and Community Services. Departmental correspondence.
Department of Family and Community Services. Departmental correspondence.
This study also highlighted that unique operational contexts require housing assessment and maintenance systems to be adapted to suit the unique context, when the 'preferred operational environment' is lacking.
Names of individuals are not provided in the Appendix to protect confidentiality.
These criteria are explained in more detail in Section 2.
It is noted that this may not be strictly correct arithmetically-the averages referred to here assumes that all HLPs are as critical as one another, and thus no weighting on HLPs has taken place. This is considered appropriate for the analysis as only a summary of data is being provided. This analysis has been consistently applied between Survey 1 and Survey 2.
ABS 2001.
According to the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination website, using data extrapolated from the 2001 ABS Census and the Community A Housing Office population register <http://www.icc.gov.au>.
See <http://www.icc.gov.au>.
See <http://www.facsia.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/indigenous>.
ABS data 2001.
ABS 2001.
Based upon an estimated population of 500 people occupying 55 houses.

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