The Guardian • homeless
Issue #2145
HALF THE SKY
It might surprise some readers that universal suffrage is still not a reality in Australia for people aged 18 and over. The following are extracts...
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Issue #2098
Homeless Police and Health Care Workers
Homelessness is common throughout Queensland. It even impacts those with full-time work. The situation is so bad that homelessness now impacts police officers and health...
Read moreNational crisis for Australian renters
On census night in 2016, an estimated 116,000 people were experiencing homelessness across Australia.
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Issue #2073
GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Close to a million people took part in what was called the ‘March of a Million Hearts’ in Warsaw last Sunday. The action was...
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Issue #1998
Homelessness epidemic
Having a roof over your head and a safe living space is not a privilege as capitalists would have us believe. It is a basic...
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Issue #2099
LETTTERS
Domestic violence – addressing causes as well as symptoms As the government pauses to consider shelling up over $1 billion to address domestic violence, Australians...
Read moreHousing is a human right: tackling homelessness
Safe, secure, and healthy housing is a basic human need and right. But in the capitalist system, this right does not exist, as instead housing is a commodity and avenue for profit-making of the wealthy.
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Issue #2074
Qld’s housing debacle
According to A Blueprint to Tackle Queensland’s Housing Crisis, by Professor Hal Pawson of the University of New South Wales, since the outbreak of COVID,...
Read moreShelter a basic human right
Australia is facing a massive housing crisis. As it becomes increasingly more difficult to find affordable rental accommodation, governments are turning their backs on renters...
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Issue #2063
DINGO
The union movement extended its thoughts to the loved ones of the food delivery rider who tragically lost his life in Sydney last week working...
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Issue #2052
DINGO
Courtesy of the Morning Star comes news that imprisoned journalist Julian Assange has written to Charles Windsor inviting him to visit him in His Majesty’s...
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Issue #2031
Class war budget
The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...
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Issue #2015
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
In part one, we revealed that approximately one-fifth of households surveyed by the 2021 Census own nearly fifty per cent of the total amount of...
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Issue #2113
Homelessness week 2024 – homelessness action now!
As Australia crawled out of the coldest winter recorded for more than five years, Homelessness Australia launched its’ annual Homelessness Week (5-12 August). Each year...
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Issue #2053
DINGO
Oakey Coal Action Alliance, which is committed to saving the groundwater relied on by Darling Downs farmers in Queensland from the New Acland coal mine,...
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Issue #2065
Rental reform call to Senate inquiry
A coalition of more than 80 organisations across Australia has urged governments to act swiftly on rental reform in a joint submission to the Senate’s...
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Issue #2071
Poverty and homelessness on the Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast is two hours drive north of Brisbane. It is a collection of towns and farms extending from its famous beaches to the...
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Issue #2049
NSW: More people sleeping rough
Homelessness in Sydney has been steadily growing. Years of NSW neoliberal governments have created a perfect storm of conditions that lead to homelessness. It is...
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Issue #2063
Resist the anti-China scare campaign
Australians have real problems, problems that can’t be wished away. Climate change is happening now, and our ALP government is making it worse. There is...
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Issue #2119
The homeless are not just statistics
Geelong is a depressed city. Among its least affluent suburbs are two of the poorest in the country. It gets cold in the winter and...
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Issue #2141
Housing: don’t make it worse, warns charity
Major charity group Anglicare has responded to the recent budget reply speech by warning that two of the Dutton-led Opposition’s plans for housing could make...
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Issue #2084
DINGO
The current attack on ABC radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf – for referencing the Palestinians – is being conducted by bullying lawyers for the Israel lobby....
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Issue #2141
Brisbane and Moreton Bay Councils shut down homeless camps
Queensland is not the Sunshine State for the thousands who are homeless. In February 2025 the City of Moreton Bay, Australia’s third largest council, declared...
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Issue #2065
Hidden costs of HAFF
Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) comes with the hidden costs incurred in managing the Fund. To understand the wastage of money not going to...
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Issue #2147
Homelessness in Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast
Human rights lawyers are challenging the City of Moreton Bay Council in northern Brisbane over the eviction and destruction of homeless camps on public land....
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Issue #2161
Moreton Bay spends big on homeless evictions
The City of Moreton Bay has spent $1.4 million, in the 2024-25 financial year, evicting its homeless. In March the council outlawed homeless camping citing...
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Issue #2123
Media housing lies
Australian mainstream media has been sprouting the same nonsense on housing given by Master Builders’ Australia – that the current housing crisis is simply due...
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Issue #2161
Urgent action needed to address shocking rates of suicide among homeless youth
New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has revealed the scale of children leaving violence and neglect, and seeking support from specialised...
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Issue #2057
Existing on $13 a day
Young renters on youth allowance sharing a typical two bedroom flat have only $13 a day to cover food, transport, medicine, utilities, and other costs,...
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Issue #2190
‘Systemic failure’ as a baby dies in Wagga
On 6 May, twins were born in a homeless camp in Wagga Wagga, 15 minutes walk from the nearest public toilets or running water. Homelessness...
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Issue #2104
EDITORIAL
Housing is in the news again. James Conlan, an independent councillor in Melbourne’s Merri-bek wants to charge investors higher rates than people who actually live...
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Issue #2119
Housing: speculators clean up
The controversy around Labor’s ‘Help to Buy’ Bill (see explainer below) has brought to the fore the question of capital tax gains concessions and negative...
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Issue #2170
Housing is a human right
In the NSW-Victorian border city of Wodonga those made homeless are directed to a government-funded NGO where the homeless go to seek the provision of...
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