Thursday Island seniors (pictured from left) Luffman Elap and Jack Mills.
New homes are springing up in remote Indigenous communities around the state under a 10-year $1.6 billion joint government program.
Thursday Island seniors (pictured from left) Luffman Elap and Jack Mills are among those living in the 117 new homes completed in Queensland in 2009-10 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Program occupants.
The four two-bedroom units completed in mid-2010 are handy to the island’s hospital and medical facilities.
The Queensland and Australian governments are investing in new and improved housing to address the high level of overcrowding and homelessness in remote Indigenous communities.
The department completed an additional 117 new dwellings in remote Indigenous communities in 2009-10, which included 46 dwellings under the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing.
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