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Abdifatah Ahmed died in the shooting after police said he lunged at them with a knife.

‘How many more people need to be killed?’ Simmering tensions on the streets of Footscray

Two police officers shot a rough sleeper dead on the eve of Easter on a busy Footscray street. Was the tragedy unavoidable?

  • Melissa Cunningham

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Australia is one of the best places in the world for women to get divorced. Allan Myers is trying to make it safer for rich, divorced men.

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
Caitlyn Dunkley

I’m a first-time voter. I think this country should reflect on what it proclaims to be

If I could be prime minister for a day, I would try to ensure that vulnerable Australians were protected.

  • Caitlyn Dunkley
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
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
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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

Extremist bent of Donald Trump can only end in court

Readers react to the White House confrontation between Trump and Zelensky and the response from Europe, as wells as the push to fine St Kilda’s homeless.

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