Fines, indefinite motel stays and uncertainty: how a homeless camp exposed regional Australia’s housing crisis

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Leigh Swansborough has just pulled into Wilks Park, one of the biggest homeless encampments in regional New South Wales. “You would think that people would be here today,” says Swansborough, an advocate for the people at Wilks Park. “But no one has shown up.” Tuesday was meant to be D-day for residents at the camp in Wagga Wagga. Compliance action requests – eviction notices by another name – had been given out by the council, asking those living there to move by 28 July or face a $1,100 fine. The encampment has been in the headlines since May, when a newborn baby died just 300 metres away on the riverbank…

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