Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
2019-06-19 Daily Xml

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Homelessness

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:12): Supplementary arising from the original answer: the minister mentioned the vulnerability of those who are homeless. Has the number of homeless increased or decreased, and by how many, under her watch?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:12): I have already answered questions about the number of people surveyed through Street Connect.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: You don't know, do you? You haven't got a clue.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I am quite happy; I think I have talked about this three times already. If the honourable member wants to waste question time by getting me to repeat the figures, I will go through them again. So, 2018, Connections Week: the first Connections Week ever in Adelaide—again, a strong partnership between the service providers, the Don Dunstan Foundation and the Adelaide Zero Project—there were 143 people through that survey; in 2019, 119.