Australian-first lawsuit over ‘extreme heat’ risks in remote public housing | ABC NEWS
In the remote Central Australian community of Papunya, residents are living in rundown public housing that they say is not coping with the extreme heat conditions and changing climate of the outback.
The Human Rights Law Centre has filed landmark legal action in the Federal Court against the NT government, which alleges the government has failed in its duty as landlord to “provide housing that is safe to live in during extreme heat”.
The centre says it is the first Australian case seeking to hold a government accountable for failing to provide climate-safe housing. Elsie Lange has this report for Stateline Northern Territory.
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