I didn’t apply for housing here because I didn’t want to end up in [names 2 broad‐acre housing areas]. I suppose although I am a single mum I still have a standard for my son. It’s the language, the drinking, the drugs, the way the mothers present themselves, I just didn’t want to be associated with them.
Derwent Valley
Taxis won’t come [to broad‐acre housing area] because of ‘dead runs’ and violence against cab drivers – cabbies have been bashed.
Launceston
People on the West Coast in particular felt invisible, forgotten and isolated.
We’re the arse‐end of the world and they don’t give a stuff about us.
West Coast
Out of sight, out of mind.
West Coast
Just scraping by? Conversations with Tasmanians living on low incomes
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