
TWO years have passed since the final residents left the Hunter's three major government-run residential centres for people living with disability - the Stockton Centre, Tomaree Lodge and Kanangra at Morisset.
Unsurprisingly, various welfare providers have looked longingly at the Stockton and Tomaree campuses, especially, and seen them as ideal places to provide temporary crisis accommodation at a time when the hardening economic times are adding to already heavy demand.