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The head of the Salvation Army’s Victorian division has called for all homeless deaths in the state to be referred to the coroner. A Guardian Australia investigation this year revealed that Australians experiencing homelessness were dying at an average age of 44 – a shocking life expectancy gap driven by violence, treatable illness and systemic failures across the housing, health and justice sectors.
In a letter to the state’s attorney general this month, Colonel Kelvin Merrett – the divisional commander in Victoria – said the government should mandate that all homeless deaths are reported to the coroner. The hope would be that the measure would assist the Victorian government and community organisations in identifying measures that could be implemented to prevent unnecessary deaths of people who are homeless.
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