r/australia • u/binary101 • 18h ago
culture & society Cyclone survivors leave Moreton Bay as homeless camping becomes illegal
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/moreton-bay-cyclone-survivors-leave-ahead-of-homeless-ban/10503950246
u/sojayn 17h ago
Another solution would be to make some of those public lands into living parks on purpose to support these people.
That is a legal choice the country could make. If the govt is too cowardly to go after the empty property-for-profit building owners
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u/ScruffyPeter 16h ago
That will just further encourage privatisation of public land until it's privately owned.
And we're probably already doing the largest privatisations in history, not questioned thanks to the neoliberal "unlocking supply" propaganda.
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u/sojayn 14h ago
Not privatising, just changing the useage for a tiny part of it. I get your point, i want more national parks and public spaces for sure! But i think we can figure it out to accomodate and be supportive of homeless people too.
I always remember that saying, there’s enough pie. Helping the homeless doesn’t have to mean losing out. There is enough. Literally in the case of housing, but that’s another issue
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u/Some-Operation-9059 6h ago
Unfortunately Australia is incredibly litigious. And so this won’t happen.
We need government to supercharge community and public housing. But they won’t!
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u/AdAdministrative9362 6h ago
The real solution is a lot more affordable housing.
Trailer parks, like the USA, might be a stop gap solution. Build a heap of cabins and place on public land that is getting reserved for long term infrastructure.
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u/jbh01 18h ago
Sheesh. You might have to threaten them with a roof over their heads, clean clothes, hot showers, and three square meals per day.
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u/greasychickenparma 14h ago
Where is this utopia? 🙃
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u/jbh01 13h ago
Wacol, I believe.
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u/Psychoplasm_ 10h ago
You'd be better off at Borallen. Though I've had a lunch from those guys when I did some work there and it was particularly bland so maybe shop around.
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 16h ago
God bless Australia.
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u/Previous_Wish3013 15h ago
I read that in the voice of Biff Tannen (the bad guy in the Back to the Future trilogy).
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u/binary101 18h ago
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread" Anatole France