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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondent

Doctors warned Andrea could die without safe housing, then discharged her to sleep on the streets

Andrea Woodley
Andrea Woodley is a domestic violence survivor who has been in and out of hospital for weeks with sepsis, triggered by infected blisters on her feet after sleeping rough in inner city Perth. Photograph: Frances Andrijich/The Guardian

The family of a homeless First Nations woman who is sick with septicemia fear she will die without a safe home, but advocates warn it could be years before she reaches the top of the public housing waiting list.

Andrea Woodley has been in and out of hospital for weeks with sepsis, triggered by infected blisters on her feet after sleeping rough in inner city Perth. The Noongar, Budimaya and Nyikina woman and her loved ones fear that without a home she is at risk of death.

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