03/11/2026
I hope you slept well last night 🤦♂️
Hundreds of people across our city needed somewhere safe and dry as that storm hit.
Opening just one suitable, unused government building with toilets, staff and basic support would have given people somewhere to shelter.
Instead, hundreds spent the night in soaking wet clothes, with nowhere to change and no way to get dry?
Over the coming days and weeks, some may need emergency care as existing health problems worsen or new ones develop.
People who needed shelter could end up needing a hospital bed.
Our emergency departments are already stretched.
So are the people working in them.
Leaving people outside doesn’t make their needs disappear.
It means those needs can become more urgent, more complicated and harder to address.
The knock-on effects of government inaction reach right across the community.
At Pass It On, we can offer dry clothing and connection, but we need our government to provide somewhere safe for people to go.
A roof before a hospital bed.
Surely that’s worth acting on?
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