Australia Yearbook - 2001

322 Year Book Australia 2001
8.24 PROBLEMS WITH INFRASTRUCTURE
—1999(a)
%
Reasons for power interruptions
Equipment breakdown 51.6
Storms 36.6
Planned outage for maintenance 28.6
No fuel 7.7
Vandalism 2.9
Other reasons for power interruptions 11.0
Total communities with interruptions(b) 85.0
Reasons for sewerage overflows or leakages
Blocked drains 34.4
Equipment failure 22.3
Insufficient capacity of septic 17.6
Wet season 8.4
Population increases 7.3
Design or installation 2.2
Other reasons for sewerage problems 4.4
Total communities with overflows(b) 59.0
(a) In the 12 months prior to the Survey, in remote
Indigenous communities with 50 or more people.
(b) Individual categories do not add to total because
communities may report more than one specific problem.
Source: Unpublished data, Community and Housing
Infrastructure Needs Survey, 1999.
Endnotes
1 For further information in relation to this
collection, see Housing and Infrastructure in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Communities, Australia (4710.0).
2 Commonwealth Department of Health and
Aged Care 1999, Accessibility/Remoteness Index
of Australia (ARIA), Occasional papers series
no. 6, Commonwealth Department of Health
and Aged Care, Canberra.
3 This was calculated by dividing the population
of remote Indigenous communities by the
projected total Indigenous population (Low
series) for 1999. See Experimental Projections
of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Population (3231.0).
4 Neutze M. 1998, Housing and Infrastructure
for Indigenous Australians, Urban Research
Program working paper no. 65, Research
School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University, Canberra.
5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission 1997, Community Housing and
Infrastructure Program Policy 1997–2000,
ATSIC, Canberra.
6 The National Housing Strategy 1991,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing:
Discussion package, NHS, Canberra.