Pensioner says he has nowhere to go after developer buys up Queensland homes to make way for apartments

Bernie Maloney has become a kind of neighbourhood celebrity, even inspiring a civil disobedience campaign to stop forced evictions

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Sandwiched between high-rise blocks stands a nearly 100-year-old Queenslander that has served as a pensioner's home for the past decade. Now, the 65-year-old is being evicted by a developer to make way for yet another tower.

I've lived there for 10 years, it's become home," Bernie Maloney says. It's disappointing to get tossed around."

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