“We have, tonight, 122,000 people sleeping rough. Eighty per cent of those are women. Where women go, children follow. One in seven of those are 12 years or less; they are children, they are babies.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Wrong
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Dr Ananda-Rajah is wrong. While official figures show that 122,494 people were experiencing homelessness on census night in 2021, only 7,636 of those people were "sleeping rough" as defined by experts. Additionally, mal…