Homeless in Australia. Stories from an itinerant camp in Rockingham

Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing List · Jul 30, 2026 · 12m

These people are the canaries in our coal mine. We all know our country should be the rich superpower of the Southern Hemisphere, and yet here a growing number of our unwanted, our poor, are struggling to stay warm in their tents as the mice attempt to access their food.

There are junkies here. They live in a collection of joined tents, surrounded by scores of bicycles. The other homeless told us that these people party all night and sleep all day.

Why should they? This is the end of the line. If you don’t party now, then when will you party?

But there were other people there in expensive…