In the month of August, people who are homeless occupied one of Sydney’s most famous sites, Martin Square, to protest lack of secure, affordable housing.

The not-for-profit initiative also provided food, clothes, books and other support to protesters. In a press release on their Facebook account, #247StreetKitchenSafeSpace, emphasised that services need to better cater to the material reality of Sydney’s homeless as well as providing appropriately priced and positioned housing options, rather than prioritising rich developers.

Nelson Mandela said:

‘As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’ (At theLive 8 Concert, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 2 July 2005).