Exclusive: government urged to change Coroners Act to make it compulsory for police and other authorities to report the deaths
The South Australian government will consider a proposal to mandate the reporting of homelessness deaths. The move follows revelations that hundreds of rough sleepers are dying premature, preventable deaths.wrote to the SA attorney general, Kyam Maher, this week urging him to follow New South Wales and consider a proposal for the mandatory reporting of homelessness deaths to the coroner.In many cases, the deaths exposed systemic failures across the justice, health and housing sectors.
The alliance proposed a simple change to the SA Coroners Act making it mandatory for police and other authorities to report the death of someone experiencing homelessness to the coroner. This would give visibility over most – but not all – deaths. “In line with the representations that have been made in a number of other states, the South Australian Alliance to End homelessness is urging the South Australian government to make a minor amendment to the Coroners Act stipulating that the death of a person experiencing homelessness is reportable to the coroner.”
In a recently published paper, Prof Lisa Wood, who heads the Home2Health team at the University of Notre Dame, and colleagues Dr Matthew Tuson and Shannen Vallesi examined 360 deaths in Perth and found a median age at death of 50 years, three decades below the standard.
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