PROFESSOR ELEANOR A BOURKE AM, Chair MS SUE-ANNE HUNTER, Commissioner MR TRAVIS LOVETT, Commissioner

HB07.0006.0011 The purpose of the registration system is essentially for tenants to have - it's setting a standard around the property of the home, the condition of the home and the tenancy attributes. [...] And to come back to your question, Commissioner Lovett, in terms of the views 35 of the Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum, we've got views of organisations that - indicating that the registration system is onerous, and they do not want to join it and it’s going to, I guess to use the word interrupt their – like the way that they want to deliver services. [...] And it's not the first time we have heard the Department of Treasury and Finance aren't at the table as well, but the point we are trying to make here is that our people are coming, 40 volunteering their time to advocate for resources and self-determination, and they're not being able to meet with the right people at the table. [...] 20 MR GOODWIN: And is the government, or the Department actively considering changes to that criteria to allow for greater flexibility and access to funds? MS DANNII de KRETSER: The first step in that, I think would be the Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum indicating to us what position 25 they'd like to take on this, because of the mixed views that there may be across Aboriginal organisat. [...] MR GOODWIN: So in terms of - if I'm hearing correctly does that mean we are building capacity in the system to respond to the problem, or something else? 30 MS DANNII de KRETSER: We are - it is about building capacity in the system to respond, but the system doesn't respond to the problem well.