This thread is some background to a report of events, which follows, yesterday and overnight at #33Alfred Street, the public housing tower still in hard lockdown. It is based on interviews with people who were there - community advocates now working with the relief effort.
I have approached @VicGovDHHS for comment on these events, and have yet to receive that. I will report it in full when and if it is received.
First, some background. Previous readers of my reporting know that I have discussed how @VicGovDHHS have not involved, and were at first resisting the involvement, of the community volunteer efforts in supporting the residents in lockdown. See theguardian.com/australia-news…
This situation has improved - a bit. Community advocates are now hosted at AMSSA @youthconnect01. Representatives sit inside the Buncle St Community Centre, HQ for the relief effort. @VicGovDHHS staff sitting alongside, and so they are able to directly discusss and advocate, but
These are volunteers, people with jobs and lives. It is not sustainable. And yet, had they not been there yesterday, today we would today have #33alfred street residents in fenced area - a portable cage - taking their exercise outside their homes, while supervised by police
So here is what happened. Another thread follows.
