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"Pari Nikau was woken by being hit in the face with a shovel. He had been
sleeping in a shed on a rooftop near Sydney’s CBD and he thought he was safe.
He remembers playing dead, then blackness.
Hours later, he woke at St Vincent’s hospital, where his head was being
stapled.
Two weeks after the 16 June assault, Nikau was told he was being discharged.
“I said, ‘I don’t have money, I’m homeless’,” says Nikau, who does not qualify
for housing assistance from the government as he is from New Zealand and is not
an Australian citizen. “The hospital shouldn’t have let me out unless they knew
I’d be cared for.”
Nikau briefly moved to a centre that provides accommodation and healthcare to
homeless people, before losing that spot.
Now Nikau is among a group of rough sleepers at Sydney’s Central station
struggling with changing rules.
Earlier this month, after a string of increasingly restrictive rules, they were
told to move from a sheltered area between 6am until midnight.
“I was in pain, I moved [to Central station] because I need to sleep,” Nikau
says. “And every time I do, they come over and yell at me to move on. I’m over
having to repack. I can’t start again.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
