Karyn Brown, Waterloo public housing tenant and activist, said聽New South Wales Labor鈥檚 plan to push ahead with the demolition of the Waterloo estate is 鈥渞idiculous鈥. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Activists have successfully prevented the eviction of a disability pensioner聽from his home 鈥 for now.聽Alex Bainbridge reports.
As eviction moratoriums in New South Wales and Tasmania wind up and COVID-19 payments wind down, a crisis is looming, writes Rachel Evans.
Housing groups organised an action outside New South Wales Parliament on June 16 calling for direct rent relief and to continue the moratorium on evictions, reports Rachel Evans.
In a dawn raid on May 4, about 20 police descended on protesters, who had set up tents on the lawn in front of Hobart鈥檚 Parliament House to protest the state government鈥檚 lack of response to Hobart鈥檚 housing crisis, and ordered them to move on.
Contractors for the controversial $18 billion WestConnex tollway project dismantled their Sydney Park construction compound on Euston Road, St Peters, on October 14, following a major community campaign to stop the works.
Residents had mounted a 24-hour-a-day camp beside the site from September 19 after receiving notification that construction, including destruction of trees, would start that day.