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Architecture can be very influential in enabling health and wellbeing in the residential built environment. In arid regions, health-supportive design would consider major environmental hazards, such as heat and dust, as well as social and cultural factors that influence household size and composition. Under current and projected conditions, the effects of climate change will increase, presenting opportunities and challenges to architects to demonstrate and deliver best practice in climate-appropriate and culturally appropriate housing design. This paper brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to identify the current and future needs for tropical semi-arid zone design with a focus on Indigenous communities in northern Central Australia. In a narrative review of the literature and exploratory fieldwork, current and projected impacts of climate change on housing, health, energy systems and behavioural practices are explored in a holistic way. Our findings demonstrate the growing awareness of climate-related issues for remote Indigenous housing but also the lack of place-based studies that might inform adaptation strategies. Overwhelmingly, there is limited understanding of local lived experiences that may be highly significant for developing resilience in a changing climate. Consideration of the beliefs, values and practices of Indigenous people will be integral to design solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a discussion of the overall patterning of religion and law, and using examples from Central Australia and Southeast Queensland, this response to the inaugural Coral Bell School lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg shows how Aboriginal people developed a system of embedded, detailed, and comprehensive fractal politics and diplomacy. The descriptor 'fractal' is used as it is particularly apt for explaining the long-lasting pre-colonial stable order that prevailed on the Australian continent. The broad categories in the classical Aboriginal fractal system are religion and the Law, geography and land tenure, kinship, and the class or skin system. The response explains how these elements lock together, and how this in turn supports diplomatic and harmonious relations among groups or nations. The fractal diplomatic systems of Aboriginal Australia thus generated multi-faceted identities and ways of forming polities at different scales to address particular socio-political needs and challenges dependent on broad contextual factors and the current circumstances. This anthropologically informed explication of the diplomatic system complements the more abstract model of Indigenous political relations described in the Graham and Brigg lecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Indigenisation of the architectural practice, research, and education in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand has been an ongoing legacy from the early twentieth century until the present. This paper aims to begin mapping out significant agents, events, and processes of Indigeneity and Indigenising legacies when reviewing across the Trans-Tasman's architectural education, research, and practice contexts. The study employs secondary data coupled with findings from action research and observations as architects, educators, and researchers positioned across the Trans-Tasman from each other. Trans-Indigeneity is an apt framework for this study because it centralises the experiences across Indigenous groups within globalised and colonial settler settings. The findings indicate an affinity that continues until the present between the closely connected circles of New Zealand and Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous architectural researchers, educators, and practitioners at the forefront of Trans-Indigeneity. Across the Tasman, each Indigenous legacy has complemented and challenged the other towards common goals. The Trans-Tasman relationship, made possible through industry and academic gatherings and conferences, has assisted the Indigenisation and critical reflections of Indigeneity across the architectural profession in both locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]