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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Paul Karp

Federal minister urges Australians to help tackle homelessness ‘in their back yard’

Julie Collins
The housing and homelessness minister, Julie Collins says homelessness is ‘no longer an issue on the margins of our society’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Australians will be challenged to stop resisting solutions “in their back yard” to the homelessness crisis, as the Albanese government attempts to drive social housing construction.

The housing and homelessness minister, Julie Collins, will make the comments in a speech to the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute on Monday, in which she also accuses the Coalition of a “decade of inaction” on homelessness.

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