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

Mark in front of his caravan at Wilks Park: ‘I don’t like to ask for help because I have in the past and been knocked back.’ Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/The Guardian

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.”