'I feel like if I had specialist support as a child, I may not have experienced recurring homelessness, as I did.'

When Joal was five, she and her family were homeless. She says no-one asked her how she was coping.

There's a push to change that.
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Was a genuine pleasure to meet Christine (and her rock collection) and hear about her experience of being in paid employment and homeless.

She's in stable housing now, but a new report from Council to Homeless Persons finds the 'working homeless' is a growing crisis.

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This is a fantastic job!

Some of these promised community hospitals will open this year, or early next year.

But there are concerns some of them won't open at all.

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Good morning from the coolest street in the world, apparently ❤️

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Residents impacted by the North East Link’s 24/7 works in Bulleen only offered earplugs to deal with noise… double glazed windows only available if they sign a NDA. #springst
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Any barristers looking for robes? These are at the op shop on high street Northcote, just up the hill from the merri creek.

Past investments in buses such as Smartbus and the uni shuttles have resulted in strong patronage growth.
'If buses are upgraded, if they get traffic-light priority, if they run more frequently, people will use them.'
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I asked people, do you ever catch the bus?

At Monash Uni, people told me how friendly the drivers are, which bus routes they prefer etc.

Then I went to Clyde, in the outer south-east. The bus comes hourly. So, people drive.

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A slip lane to ease access to the Hume Freeway in the outer north has cut the commute time on ONE ROAD from an average of 40 MINUTES to 10 minutes. Every morning. Locals say it's 'life-changing'.
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“It would be good if they would do the planning first. What we’ve always seen is the people come in first, and then it’s always years down the track where they’re catching up with what’s occurred.”

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this...
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Can confirm that Jesse should definitely win this extremely real award.

I've been thinking about the data in this all morning.

More than 45% of workers are overqualified for the work they're doing across swathes of the outer suburbs.

In Rockbank, it's 55%. Dandenong and Broadmeadows, 57%. Much less in the inner city.
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The mayor of the beautiful Cardinia shire on Melbourne’s south-east fringe refers to the area as a bed and breakfast.

'Because people will come home, go to bed, get up in the morning, eat their breakfast and go back into the city to work,' she says.

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