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September 23, 2025

Managing mould, housemates, and landlords: new research reveals sharehousing horror stories

Zoe Goodall, Swinburne University of Technology and Deb Batterham, Swinburne University of Technology

One described how the house was ‘excessively damp and mouldy, to the point where all of our furniture and clothes and stuff started to get mould on it.’

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November 25, 2021

We identified who’s most at risk of homelessness and where they are. Now we must act, before it’s too late

Deb Batterham, Swinburne University of Technology; Christian A. Nygaard, Swinburne University of Technology; Jacqueline De Vries, University of Tasmania, and Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology

To really reduce homelessness we need to prevent those at risk from ever becoming homeless in the first place.

In 2001, around half of homeless people were found in capital cities. Today it’s almost two-thirds. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock

May 29, 2019

Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001

Sharon Parkinson, Swinburne University of Technology; Deb Batterham, Swinburne University of Technology, and Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology

Homelessness in Australia is increasingly concentrated in the capital cities, where nearly two in every three people without a home are now found. That’s the finding of a study of the data since 2001.

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