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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Stephanie Convery

Aboriginal man takes public housing eviction to Human Rights Commission alleging racism

John Abraham Human Rights Commission Human Rights Housing Authority Guardian Australia Australian Human Rights Commission
Aerial landscape view of Perth Western Australia
John Abraham has allowed other family members to live with him when they would otherwise be homeless and says his eviction would push himself, his parents, adult siblings and seven children into homelessness. Photograph: chameleonseye/Getty Images/iStockphoto

An Aboriginal man who alleges his eviction from public housing in Western Australia is racial discrimination has been granted an injunction in the federal court, allowing him to stay at the property while he takes his complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

John Abraham, a Noongar man, made a complaint to the Human Rights Commission against the WA Housing Authority in August after he received a “without grounds” termination notice, commonly called a no-grounds eviction notice. It requested he leave the public housing property he has lived in since 2020, the court heard on Friday.

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