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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus Chief investigations correspondent

Sydney business body calls for complete overhaul of homelessness response after ‘disturbingly lonely and tragic death’

A milk crate and a tarp lie among ferns
Vegetation above the St James station tunnel in Hyde Park, near where Bikram Lama died while homeless in Sydney. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Sydney’s peak business group has called for the urgent establishment of a safety taskforce to help rough sleepers in the central business district after the disturbing death of a young Nepali man in Hyde Park.

Guardian Australia revealed this week that Bikram Lama, 32, had died where he was sleeping in bushes near the entrance to St James tunnel, a busy thoroughfare used by thousands of commuters.

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