It's winter 2016 and your year began with severe illness, an abusive relationship, moving interstate, and now deep depression in your cold new Melbourne sharehouse. The Henderson poverty line is currently $425.61 per week1, and your disability support pension is about $20 below that. You pick up odd jobs as a freelance writer when you can, working from bed when you're too ill to make it to the couch, and crowdfunding to keep your head above water. You're barely covering the rent for your small sitting-room-turned-bedroom. Your chronic illness has gotten worse, leaving you mostly housebound and in untreatable pain. You're doing it all on your own. No carer, no support worker, no help from family or a partner.
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