Homelessness
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I’m a 64-year-old finance professional … and I’m homeless
More Australians are finding themselves without a roof over their heads. For some of us, it’s a matter of life or death.
- John Coles
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If I could be prime minister for a day, I would try to ensure that vulnerable Australians were protected.
- Caitlyn Dunkley
Brisbane’s homeless stressed and confused a week after threats to boot them out
One week after the lord mayor vowed to clear out Brisbane parks, homeless people are still at the centre of the housing debate but few have been asked to move.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
Homeless people kicked out of Brisbane’s parks, tents removed
Brisbane’s rough sleepers will be moved on under a crackdown by council, with the mayor insisting that “parks and playgrounds should be safe spaces for everyone to enjoy”.
- Felicity Caldwell
Hostile architecture: Freo council’s potty idea to deter rough sleepers from iconic strip
A Perth council is using nature in their battle against rough sleepers occupying an iconic tourist attraction.
- Sarah Brookes
‘Second-best solution’: Two security guards to bolster city’s safety patrols
Melbourne City Council has begun a trial of two security guards accompanying their officers enforcing anti-begging, drinking and drug-taking laws.
- Adam Carey
‘I thought we’d look after people’: 60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians
Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians, and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.
- Rachel Eddie
‘If winds get above 80km/h, it will become unsafe to move’: Fears for city’s rough sleepers
Organisations say shelter needs to be set up for the region’s homeless population now.
- Courtney Kruk and Rosanna Ryan
Surging crime prompts Port Phillip Council to consider fining homeless
The idea of fining rough sleepers raised concerns from some councillors about making homelessness illegal and possibly breaching vulnerable citizens’ human rights.
- Tom Cowie
How a Queensland child died homeless and hungry after living out of a box
The boy’s death was among 70 highlighted in a report that reveals how children are slipping through a system that has “forgotten how to care”.
- Fraser Barton and William Davis
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