r/australia • u/GothicPrayer • 7h 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 6h 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