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*** MEDIA ALERT *** People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis

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***MEDIA ALERT*** 

 

A press conference will be held in Sydney on Thursday morning on the first day of hearings for Australia’s first People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis, convened by Everybody’s Home.

 

WHO: 

  • Commissioner Doug Cameron (former Labor Senator for NSW) 

  • Commissioner Prof Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney housing expert)

  • National spokesperson for Everybody’s Home Maiy Azize

  • Housing and homelessness organisations + unions

 

WHEN: Thursday 23 May at 11.30am sharp

 

WHERE: Main building entrance of University of Sydney’s RD Watt Building on Science Road, Camperdown NSW 2050.

 

Media are invited to attend and report on all sessions however only the following are allowed to be filmed:

 

  • 1000 - Welcome to Country and Older Women’s Network Theatre Group performance about the housing crisis 

  • 1015 - Opening Commissioner remarks

  • 1030 - Session 1: Families, single parents, women escaping violence giving evidence

  • 1130 - Press conference


Interviews with speakers/case studies can be arranged on request.

Media contact: Sofie Wainwright 0403 920 301 

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