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18.02.2022 Help us to Change the National Building Code to make housing accessible for all Australians. Please sign the Building Better Homes Campaign petition Right now, nearly three quarters of Australians with mobility impairment live in housing which does not meet their needs. Many people with disability say poor housing design means they cannot visit friends and family.... In some cases, housing quality is so low that people are unable to leave the house at all. Australia’s lack of accessible housing is also forcing many older Australians into residential care, when the majority of Australians seniors would rather age at home. This needs to change - it’s time to make housing accessible for all Australians. The Building Better Homes Campaign is a coalition of disability and seniors organisations working to change the National Building Code to make accessibility standards mandatory for all new residential homes. Twenty-five national organisations have already joined. This will change the life of hundreds of thousands of Australians who are currently limited in their day-to-day activities simply because their housing doesn’t meet their needs. We know the campaign will be strongly opposed by many vested interests across the building industry - that’s why we need your help to win this campaign. We need your help to seek State and Federal Building Ministers to make accessibility standards mandatory for all new residential homes. Please, sign and share this petition to show your support for people with disabilities, seniors, and those with mobility impairment. https://www.change.org/BetterHomes

30.01.2022 With a traditional period of giving and receiving we hope that our friends, colleagues, clients and associates experience; Joy, Friendship, Love, and Hope and that the spirit of this time permeate the whole year ahead through our interactions with others; our family, at work, in recreational pursuits, and our relationships. Peace and Good will from Geoff and Margaret Barker.

24.01.2022 Isn't it time Housing was considered "essential infrastructure". With various governments espousing their focus is on "creating jobs" consider this. The housing sector is the single largest gross employer when taking into account primary level construction AND the secondary and tertiary level services and suppliers. If we had the intestinal fortitude to invest in Social, Community and Public housing construction and support services then see the economic and more importantly the socio-cultural benefits, such as reducing the incidence of homelessness, reducing incidence of health presentations and reducing the rising mental health crisis. Of particular interest is seeing a significant investment in housing with Indigenous people.

21.01.2022 An informative Conference in Darwin with some inspiring and optimistic presentations. Great to catch up with friends colleagues and like minded attendees. Strong support for a regeneration of Housing for Health. How long has that taken?!!! I hope sustaining peoples right to safe, health supporting, appropriate and secure homes becomes a bipartisan long term objective.

18.01.2022 I had the pleasure and privilege of attending and presenting at 2 conferences recently. One key point on Housing Exclusion (otherwise called Homelessness - a term I no longer use because of the association with blaming the victim!) How is it we can sit vicariously by and allow people to be discriminated against; with the result many get sick from preventable infections and diseases and some die. Isn't it time we invested in Housing as a Nationally important sector of essential Infrastructure benefitting people, the economy and socio-cultural advancement. Housing is more than bricks and iron. Housing is life and home.

13.01.2022 With a traditional period of giving and receiving we hope that our friends, colleagues, clients and associates experience; Joy, Friendship, Love, and Hope and that the spirit of this time permeate the whole year ahead through our interactions with others; our family, at work, in recreational pursuits, and our relationships. Peace and Good will from Geoff and Margaret Barker.

07.01.2022 We had news recently that a colleague and good friend, John Baillie, died in Adelaide. John was a generous, hard working, thoughtful engineer who was committed to improving the living conditions and Infrastructure of people in remote Australia and the Pacific. He was also a believer in collaborative working methods as having the best potential for delivering; the required project objectives as well as added value outcomes that directly benefited the people and community in which the project was to be delivered. A good friend whose smile, intellect, humour and football bent (even though we supported different teams!) will live with us as his legacy. See ya John!!!