Good morning. Today Guardian Australia launches Out in the Cold, a 12-month investigation into homelessness deaths, which found these vulnerable Australians die, on average, three decades prematurely. Our examination of 600 cases begins with Roger Davies, 42, a rough sleeper and army veteran who died with fractures to nine ribs. Despite this, police concluded there was “no evidence of suspicious circumstances” and he was sent to a pauper’s grave without his family being notified for more than two years. There is “never going to be any closure”, Davies’ family says. His treatment in life and death exposes the indifference to Australia’s homeless life expectancy crisis – fuelled by critical housing shortages and failures of the justice system. We also have the latest from the Middle East, and new details of a government review of alleged supermarkets’ price gouging. |