{"id":6960,"date":"2020-06-17T04:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2020-06-17T04:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:41:54","slug":"claydon-prepares-to-sleep-in-car-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/claydon-prepares-to-sleep-in-car-in-canberra\/","title":{"rendered":"CLAYDON PREPARES TO SLEEP IN CAR IN CANBERRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon will spend the night sleeping in her car in Canberra after a fortnight in Federal Parliament. Canberrans are expecting a minimum overnight temperature of 3 degrees.<br \/>\n\u201cThe night is being run slightly differently this year as a result of COVID, with participants taking part from their cars, couches or backyards,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe CEO Sleepout provides some insight into homelessness and demands that we focus on some of the issues that homeless people confront every day.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said the CEO Sleepout raises money for local Vinnie\u2019s services providing food, accommodation, healthcare and support for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.<br \/>\n\u201cLast year, the donations to the Newcastle CEO Sleepout delivered funding for the Matthew Talbot Centre in Wickham to employ a property officer and a specialist mental health worker to give people the assistance and support to successfully transition to the private rental market.<br \/>\n\u201cThe CEO Sleepout will deliver a concrete positive outcomes for our community in Newcastle. I\u2019d encourage everyone to dig deep and support it.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said it was a national tragedy that more Australians are homeless than ever before.<br \/>\n\u201cOn any given night, close to 120,000 Australians will be homeless. For a wealthy country like Australia \u2013 that\u2019s to our great shame.<br \/>\n\u201cStable and secure housing, is absolutely central to developing wellbeing in all areas of our lives.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon commended the work of Vinnie\u2019s and all frontline services working to help people facing homelessness, but said that governments need to do more.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen through the COVID-19 crisis that where there is genuine commitment, we can rapidly reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets, in cars, or on couches,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cNow we need to take that political will and commit to genuine long-term solutions to drive down homelessness.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>To support Sharon and donate to the CEO Sleepout, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceosleepout.org.au\/fundraisers\/sharon-claydon-sharon-claydon-mp\/newcastle\">https:\/\/www.ceosleepout.org.au\/fundraisers\/sharon-claydon-sharon-claydon-mp\/newcastle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon will spend the night sleeping in her car in Canberra after a fortnight in Federal Parliament. Canberrans are expecting a minimum overnight temperature of 3 degrees. \u201cThe night is being run slightly differently this year as a result of COVID, with participants taking part from their cars, couches or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/claydon-prepares-to-sleep-in-car-in-canberra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CLAYDON PREPARES TO SLEEP IN CAR IN CANBERRA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}