New door opens for older women facing homelessness in Canberra

Sherryn Groch
Updated August 13 2019 - 9:37am, first published August 8 2019 - 12:00am

You would never have known Elaine* was sleeping in her car. She was always impeccably groomed, "in between jobs" but staying with friends after a relationship breakdown. She was smiling and optimistic, even though those jobs were looking further and further out of reach and there was alarmingly little cash - or super - to her name.

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Sherryn Groch

Sherryn Groch

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Sherryn is a journalist at The Canberra Times, with a special interest in education and social affairs.

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