Editor’s Letter
It’s our sanctuary, it’s where the heart is, it’s home sweet home, but what if you suddenly found yourself without a stable roof over your head? Many of us think ‘it could never happen to me’, but it’s the reality for 49,000 Australian women this very night, many of them survivors of family violence or divorcees experiencing severe financial hardship. We spoke to four women who found themselves in just such a position, and took a good hard look at what needs to be done to address this growing crisis (page 24). It is an issue we feel so strongly about at The Weekly that, along with our publishers Are Media, we have launched Unhoused, a campaign demanding action be taken at a national government level. Working in collaboration with peak…