Invasion Day, marks the violent seizure of this continent by British colonial forces in 1788—a deliberate act of theft that initiated a system of exploitation and dispossession still at the heart of this nation. For First Nations peoples, it is a day of mourning, a reminder of the massacres, stolen children, and erasure of cultures committed in the name of empire.
On the 14th of December 2024, housing advocates and people experiencing homelessness occupied three adjoining empty properties in Brunswick, which have cumulatively been empty for almost 25 years. It was the first of many planned protests targeting wealthy landowners deliberately keeping their properties empty during a housing crisis.
We the undersigned stand in staunch solidarity with the Beananging Kwuurt Institute (BKI) and call for the immediate cessation of its eviction by the Uniting Church Australia. The eviction represents a continuation of the colonial injustices that this very site was once complicit in, denying Indigenous peoples a vital space for healing from the trauma caused by colonisation and the church’s own actions.
The inaugural issue of Housing, a publication born from the collective efforts and voices of the Inner South Melbourne Branch.
Towards the end of the 1930s, the Australian state entered a period of population growth, exacerbated by the end of the Second World War, the Baby Boom, and an influx of European refugees brought in under the White Australia Policy. […]
“a small number of people … backed by the Greens political party, who have demonstrated that they don’t want particularly vulnerable Victorians to have the dignity of a new modern home”. – Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, via The Age, October […]
This week, the media is awash with glowing reports on the federal Labor government’s latest “measures” attempting to “ease pressures during the cost-of-living crisis”. A 10% increase for those receiving rent assistance, while rents claw ahead further, by 11% on average.
This week, as we crawl out of the coldest winter recorded in so-called Australia for more than 5 years, Homelessness Australia launches it’s annual Homelessness Week (August 5th – August 12th). Each year there is much pomp and ceremony surrounding the not-for-profit sectors […]
Read RAHU’s 2024 Q2 report
In June 2024, RAHU contributed a written submission to the Victorian Labor government’s Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses. The state government opened for submissions relating to the new minimum energy efficiency and safety standards proposed for rental […]
