Photography by Justine Cogan. Read more

Mum used to get really angry about bills and I never knew why or what a bill was . . . Read more

​​He used to play a game where they’d spin a bottle around on a map then drive, drunk, wherever it pointed . . . Read more

Homelessness is not who I am; it’s just what I’m doing right now, to evolve. . . . Read more

. . . she watched her father kill her little brother
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We didn’t know it then but she had bi-polar and would later go on to take her own life.  . . . Read more                              

Some clients are like cut-flowers
​between the earth and the vase     . . . . Read more​

​The doors are closed and I am wondering what they are hiding.         ….Read more

​The rain is the city          . . . Read more​

​Dad never did get out of jail and Mum ended up going to jail               . . . Read more​

​Hear about a dad's journey out of homelessness:

Realtors smell something unprofessional about motherhood. ​Single motherhood especially . . . . Read more

I had many other daddies . . . Read more

Everything, including my home, was washed away before a tsunami of debt.
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The hotel room
Clean but showing its age
Just like me.                            . . . Read more​

My home now the nut farm,
Confined with the door left wide open
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My father taught me how to live with nothing. So I'm not afraid of losing anything. Free.​                                       . . . Read more

Three and a half years after the end of the War – thirty returned soldiers were sleeping in the Domain and that the Red Cross was stretched to breaking point in attempting to feed them.
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I put my arms around him, held him close
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Tears seeped down her cheeks as she softly told the story of the massacre..... read more

​​As you tell your stories, I am one with you, branded homeless, hobbled and handcuffed.
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her family had led a comfortable life until her husband was made redundant, triggering a previous mental illness       . . . Read more

The school assumed that students lived in a home where meals could be prepared... Read More

This project was funded by annual program funding from
​Create NSW

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