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  HKF August 2, 2017 at 9:17pm

  They should be moved on, would you allow homeless people to sleep in your yard?.

  Lets cut the bullshit, a lot of homeless people are homeless by their own doing.
• 2agd8rk0gah1u August 2, 2017 at 9:20pm

  Well, instead of the Govt wasting $billions of $$ on building rubbish venues and other monstocitites and trying to help 'refugees' they should be using their money to help Australians first:
  1) help the homeless by providing cheap and affordable housing
  2) by helping the multitudes of young unemployed to find jobs or train them into professions that will get them jobs instead of stupid courses that get them nothing.
  3) help the people in the bush who do it tough year in and year out!
  4) teach young people in high schools 'trades' so Australia doesn't have to bring in professionals from overseas.
  5) help Argriculture in this nation! This country needs 'farmers' stop the selling of this nation to foreign ownership.
  6) There are far better options than a tent city in Martin Place! There are multitudes of empty houses in a vast majority of country towns that the govt could use for accommodation with some added incentive to the owners of these houses. The Govt unfortunately doesn't think outside the square, they're only concerned about themselves.
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    Wizardssleeves official receipts August 3, 2017 at 9:38am

    Ok . So who here's actually walked through Martin Place lately ? Surely we have a few people that work , live whatever in the city thats seen this farcical set up ?
    
    
    The problem is Gol , is that having a tent city in high profile Martin Place isn't just attracting the homeless it's attracting a whole heap of non homeless or homeless by choice . They're only in there because it's a great place to beg and busk for money for smokes grog and Uni fees in some cases . We also have a hub for sex offenders and criminals . The frontman for the movement is a 71 year old man who's about to have a child with his girlfriend who's 20 . Looking through some articles about him a few weeks back he's actually been charged for child offences in Canada about 20 years ago and one girl has claimed he has multiple girlfriends through the tent city .
    
    Walking through there a few weeks ago on our way to dinnner the wife and I noticed that there were young people drinking cans and bottles of pre mixed drinks and young student looking Indians sitting on laptops tethering off each other's mobiles . Yes there are genuine homeless people living in there however they're very much being used as the photo opportunitys by the people with the political agendas . Today I've read that the dept of housing has been working through the " residents " and has reported that there is an unwillingness by this group to move into full time housing on offer .
    
    Why ? Because they'd rather be in Martin Place . Now I understand that homelessness in the CBD is a huge problem , however letting them congregate as a high profile movement and attracting a shitload of people who're just lazy freeloaders , iimmigrants , and hard leftys with agendas is just amplifying the issue and making it harder to work through the people who actually need assistance . If they chose not to be assisted , that's fine , but if they return to MP after it's been moved on or pitch a tent anywhere in the city they'll be arrested .
    
    There is no short answer , but if it were me running the show I'd be moving all of them into a fenced off and safe park with food and amenities outside the city ( with freedom to come and go ) and working through each and every one of their identities and processing them one by one and assisting them into relevant assistance . I'd like to see exactly just how many of these people all of a sudden find alternative accomodation .
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  Putty August 2, 2017 at 9:34pm

  Some of this is nothing but a political statement. Many of the people camping in Martin Place were evicted by The Housing Department from Millars point and the Sirius building. The state govt are right to sell off these valuable assets and re-invest the money into up to 4 times the amount of housing to house these people plus other needy people. It is completely ridiculous for tax payers to be subsiding unemployed and low income people in the city and some of the most valuable real estate on the planet, especially if they don't need to be there. Especially when there are people travelling over two hours a day each way just to get to the city to work each day !
  
  Just a political play IMO !
• Dave August 2, 2017 at 9:35pm

  Points 2 down are reliant on the lazy turds actually wanting the jobs.
  
  There are jobs out there that a lot of young people refuse to take because they think it is beneath them.
  
  The only way it will work is if the unemployment benifits situation is changed.
  
  Give them a certsin amount of time (say 2 months) to find a job if they don't then they are either forced to move to where work is even if it is pocking mushrooms on Oberon or they stop getting handouts. Then you might start getting the farmers you want.
  • 2agd8rk0gah1u > Dave August 3, 2017 at 6:49am

    Dave, I agree with your point but not all young people are lazy but I do agree they are at times fussy but not all of them. There are lots of farmers and in particular orchards that are forced to bring in foreign labourers because like you say too many are fussy.
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  Tom Mus August 2, 2017 at 9:36pm

  There's been a homeless presence at the top of Martin place since 2011, starting with the 'Occupy Sydney' movement as detailed here.  The media attention at the moment is mostly political, with the NSW government once again picking fights with the council, and vice versa.

  But that aside, not too fussed by it.  If it's safe, sanitary, and you can walk past it, who gives a shit?

  

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  Tin Tim August 2, 2017 at 9:43pm

  Let them do it, it will get out of hand. I bet you can't just camp anywhere in Sydney. Why should they!
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  Wizardssleeves official receipts August 2, 2017 at 9:47pm

  It's a political movement using a bunch of bums to drive their agenda . Anyone who's been past in the last few weeks will tell you 3/4 of them don't need to be there . They've been offered relocation however that disgusting Kiwi fella that's running the show is keeping them there . He owns his own property and only lives there 6 months of the year so he can use it as his very own brothel . They should all be arrested and moved on and the place should be cleaned up with measures put in place to stop them returning . Then they should deport Lanz Preistly the grub .
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  Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown August 2, 2017 at 9:51pm

  There but by the grace of the universe go us all......