As the city’s homeless are ordered from their tents after sweeps by council ‘pink shirts’, some claim it is more about visibility than a ‘security issue’
The day after Sasha Harmond learned her eight-year-old child, Elijah, was dying in hospital, she was ordered to move on from her home – a tent in Orleigh Park, in Brisbane’s inner west.
The police, “pink shirts” from state housing authorities and council staff arrived in heavy rain last week; they had umbrellas. The homeless people – who did not have even access to a shower – were ordered out of their tents.
