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Homeless people living in long-term tent encampments across Brisbane’s parks have received an influx of information in the week since the Lord Mayor announced the council would move them on.

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

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A homeless person sits outside a cyclone refuge centre in Brisbane, on March 7, as the city prepares for the arrival of cyclone Alfred.

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
The City of Fremantle is using hostile architecture to deter rough sleepers.

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
Security guards in the City of Melbourne

‘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
Cory Memery at his former home on a Carlton public housing estate.

‘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
Tents in South Brisbane’s Musgrave Park.

‘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
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Residents have raised concerns about anti-social behaviour in St Kilda, prompting a proposal to issue fines to the homeless.

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
A new report into the death of young people linked to the residential care system has made nine recommendations.

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
How Maribyrnong Council promoted the Nicholson Street Mall playground in Footscray (left); and before it was removed.

A $250,000 playground was installed in Footscray’s mall. It backfired

Nicholson Street is one of Australia’s oldest pedestrian malls. But traders say it was the wrong move in 2023 to install a playground because it became a magnet for antisocial behaviour.

  • Sophie Aubrey
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Dreaming of a dark Christmas

And avoiding Santa’s skylight.

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