Beloved Australian children’s music group The Wiggles has voiced their deep disappointment amid revelations their music is being used by the City of Bunbury in Western Australia to deter homeless people from a waterfront bandstand.
on a loop 24 hours a day at its Graham Bricknell Memorial Music Shell to discourage people from congregating there.
This masthead understands The Wiggles have since approached the city’s council requesting it stop using the song. The partially covered public stage in the city’s heart and opposite its bus depot has regularly doubled as a shelter for those experiencing homelessness over the better part of the past decade.
And Miguel said the city had been receiving increasing reports of such behaviour and costly damage due to the growing number of people setting up camp in the area.the use of music as a passive way of discouraging people from congregating in an area was a common method utilised across the state and the city had been employing it for more than six months.“Graham Bricknell Memorial Music Shell is a community space where people should feel safe to visit and meet up,” he said.
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