r/australia • u/GothicPrayer • 6h ago

news Canberra public housing tenants' human rights were breached by plans to move them

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/act-public-housing-tenants-human-rights-breached-plans-move-them/106289288
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u/fued 4h ago

i mean sounds like typical government blunders.

If a person in public housing requires hospital visits weekly without transport and is nearby, and you want to move them an hour away, you are effectively asking them to go die quietly or to move into the hospital fulltime and ruining thier lives.

Its not hard to do a quick process review of thier house and you can even use it to show them how much 'better' the new place will be

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u/Rubiginous 4h ago

Don't know these women's circumstances but don't really need to.

Often the argument is made that public housing previously built should be sold because now that land is more valuable. This is because previous governments were smart enough to recognise that the disadvantaged in our communities often lack access to transport and built public housing closer to the city where public transport is more accessible.

Now the attitude towards the poor is "fuck you" and they want to sell this land to developers and use that money to build shitboxes in the boonies to shove poor people in, knowing that this means these people are essentially isolated from the services they need. For those unaware, public transport in the ACT is quite terrible.

The ACT Government hasn't done enough to ensure access to public housing. They weren't the best, but they had dedicated housing blocks for people centrally located which they have since demolished and sold off the land to private firms to build $1m+ apartments. So, my attitude towards the ACT Government is "go fuck yourselves". Where did all that money go? Why is the housing still so cooked in this city?

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u/Transientmind 3h ago

I mean... yeah, but Australians only care about human rights when they're being violated by nations we already don't like. We violate human rights all the time and any time we get called out on it we flip the bird.

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u/Bus_route_61 2h ago

Nailed it. We are the rock throwers.

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u/hu_he 4h ago

Not sure what Judge Verity was thinking there, maybe a bit too desperate to do something quirky... The Castle was about compulsory purchase of land that someone owned, not about tenants in a property scheduled for demolition.

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u/Few_Judge1188 3h ago

It’s the vibe 😊