An aged care home in a remote Western Australian Indigenous community still hasn’t opened seven years after it was built, an embarrassment angry residents blame on past blunders made by government officials. Key points: Warmun’s aged care home, built in 2014, has never opened Residents were left fuming after operational funding wasn’t provided Millions of dollars now need to be spent to bring the building up to current standards Warmun’s aged care home opened in 2014 amid a government-funded building spree in response to floods that wiped out the community in 2011 . Its striking design, featuring a raised structure of walkways and stairs, saw the architect win the prestigious Health Award at the 2015 World Architecture Festival. But while glowing articles in architectural publications gushed about the building’s design, they failed to mention the 12-bed facility lay empty, becoming another one of the Kimberley’s wasted government buildings. As champagne flutes were filled at the awards ceremony in Singapore, leaders in the East Kimberley community were fuming at the former Western Australian Barnett government and the commonwealth, for leaving them with a building they could not afford. ‘We trusted people … to do the work’ The $12 million aged care home was jointly funded by a… Read full this story
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