Brisbanes rough sleepers given 24 hours to move on. Empty tents removed from parks. A crackdown driven by Brisbane City Council.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said the state government had advised 'virtually every rough sleeper in Brisbane was offered secure accommodation before Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Shockingly the vast majority refused. We won't let Brisbane turn into the San Francisco Bay Area where encampments have grown out of control and become magnets for crime, violence and illegal drugs."
Paul Slater from Northwest Community Group insisted people were not offered accommodation. "I was out with people last night and I was talking to them... they have nowhere to go, they're literally just going to sleep on the footpath."