Campers at Lake Illawarra face eviction notices

'Lord Mayor' Mick has lived at this unofficial camp site for years. Now he has to get out. Video by Adam McLean.

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00:00absolutely devastated um basically there's nowhere for us to go at all we've got so many

00:06homeless people here and they've got nothing um where are we supposed to go um

00:14there's no housing there's no nothing um yeah we're just absolutely devastated

00:20and yeah what can you say yeah 28 days um to move on but uh we're gonna fight it Tuesday now um

00:31i've already um i'll wait for call back from legal aid and uh see where we stand on that

00:39use our wealth homeless protocol and yeah and so just see what we can do we've got to save this

00:47place for the homeless and for travelers and the backpackers because there there's nowhere nowhere

00:55anywhere between nowra and newcastle for them to pull up and rest and whatever happened the driver

01:03reviver yeah you've got stations too far apart okay and where do you think you'll go from here

01:12is there if you have to move on not sure um there's a couple of places we could probably go but

01:22uh whether we get moved off then it's two different matters uh gotta try and

01:30i don't know anything you'll leave the illawarra do you think there's somewhere for you to go around

01:34here we're gonna stay in the illawarra for a little while i've got uh medical things i'm gonna do

01:38uh but uh uh stay started for you thanks to hitching and they're just as bad if not worse

01:47uh yeah uh maybe inland yeah