Two of Trevor’s friends died sleeping rough. He wants Australia’s homelessness deaths investigated

Trevor Brown, who lives in a tent near the Victorian town of Cockatoo: ‘There are so many people camping out in the bush.’ Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Trevor Brown feels like he’s slowly drowning.

Brown has been homeless, on and off, for more than a decade, after his life spiralled out of control on the back of a failed business, health problems and depression.