Queensland MP calls for return of vagrancy laws to allow police to prosecute homeless people https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/22/queensland-mp-calls-for-return-of-vagrancy-laws-to-allow-police-to-prosecute-homeless-people?CMP=share_btn_url #homelessness #queensland #vagrancy The clue of course is in the first paragraph. How dare they be homeless in a superior place? Let them be hidden away in the Hinterland #nerang is so much more appropriate. Or of course we could back track on some of the decisions we've made that lessen the amount of social housing.
Queensland MP calls for return of vagrancy laws to allow police to prosecute homeless people

LNP member for Mermaid Beach says absence of legislative power to remove tents set up in his electorate is ‘unacceptable’

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