Paul Memmott and his colleagues have contributed to understandings of homelessness in Australia by demonstrating some of the uniqueness and nuances in Aboriginal housing and homelessness (Memmott et al. 2003; Memmott and Chambers this issue). This work challenges us to conceptualise Indigenous housing and homelessness, not from a onedimensional ‘cultural perspective’ that normalises homelessness and transience, but from a perspective that grapples with complex and pervasive issues embedded within colonisation, dispossession and attachment to land, poverty, family and identity. This literature has played an important role in positioning the meanings of home as a central focus of analysis, whereby housing and home should not necessarily be conflated.

This article is from the Parity - November 2010 Homelessness and Dispossession