‘Our spirits are being broken’: a year after Perth’s homeless tent city was cleared, the crisis remains

The camp put the issue on the agenda in Western Australia and led to housing for some. But many still struggle on society's margins

On Boxing Day 2020, a small group of people concerned about the closure of Perth's homelessness services over Christmas set up a camp kitchen in a Fremantle park.

They half expected nobody to turn up and to be packing up their trestle tables by mid-morning. Instead, an entire community bloomed.