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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

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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.

Brisbane City Council turned off the power at two inner-city parks recently following reports of anti-social behaviour.

Taskforce to tackle crime in Brisbane’s homeless encampments

Crime and drug use at two of Brisbane’s biggest tent cities has prompted council to join forces with police to tackle “anti-social behaviour”.

  • Emily Verdouw
Miriam Wallace is a single woman who found herself homeless for most of this year, despite 25 years working in the music industry and corporate jobs.

I’m a career woman with 25 years’ experience, yet found myself homeless

Recently, I read that middle-aged, single women were increasingly facing homelessness. I joked to a friend, “I’m going to become a statistic!” But it turned out to be no joke.

  • Miriam Wallace
Prince William at a meeting before the launch of the Homewards project to end homelessness.

Prince of Wales: I talk to my children about homelessness – like my mother Diana did

She made sure we knew “the life outside palace walls thing was real, you know,” William says.

  • India McTaggart
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Brisbane City Council has switched off the electric barbecues and other power sources at two inner-city parks following reports of vandalism and anti-social behaviour.

Cameras installed in Musgrave Park, as focus turns to housing policies

Days after power was cut to two inner-Brisbane parks, their homeless residents will soon be under increased scrutiny.

  • Courtney Kruk
A new report has proposed major changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax to improve the rental market.

Landlords could lose negative gearing perks unless they cap rents in new plan

The pathway could improve the standard of rentals and increase the value for money the government gets from housing tax concessions.

  • Jim Malo
Tents have appeared in one of the city’s busiest intersections, opposite the Roma Street Fire Station just before the William Jolly Bridge.

Tents in busy Brisbane intersection just one part of crisis, advocates say

The new cluster of tents has prompted renewed calls for urgent investment in long-term solutions to the housing crisis.

  • Courtney Kruk
Jacq Gallagher

My home became a holiday rental, so I lived in a cemetery

My friends and I don’t deserve to be homeless any more than you do. No one is immune to homelessness.

  • Jacq Gallagher

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