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Organisers of Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ to be issued move on notices, Simone McGurk says
The State Government says it expects a tent city set up for homeless people in Fremantle to be shut down from today.
Key points:
- A street kitchen to feed the homeless set up in a park on Boxing Day
- Organisers then called for donations of tents and pledged to stay
- Premier Mark McGowan has said organisers are ‘professional protestors’
Community Services Minister Simone McGurk told radio station 6PR she had been in conversation with the local council about issuing “move on” notices to organisers of the camp.
“I just spoke to the chief executive of the City of Fremantle and said that I want to work with the relevant public sector agencies and the community sector organisations to shut the camp down,” she said.
“I think what that looks like is that…
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