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A young couple pose, the man has his arm around the woman's waist

A green riverfront with a view of a hilly suburb on the other side
Tamar riverfront in Launceston.(Abigail Varney)

A black and white photo of a young man and a woman walking a dog.
Chloe and Trent head out for their daily walk with Rocky their dog.

A young couple walk uphill on grass with their dog, their caravan is in the background
Chloe and Trent head out for their daily walk with Rocky their dog. Their caravan in the backdrop.(Abigail Varney)

A young woman holds up a dog and gives it a kiss as a young man looks on.
Chloe and Trent with their dog, Rocky.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A young woman wearing converse, slacks and a tank top sits down on a road with her dog.
Chloe with her dog, Rocky.(Abigail Varney)

A yard with miscellaneous items can be seen through a see-through plastic curtain.
The couple were rejected from multiple rental units before finding the caravan for rent on Facebook.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A young couple sit down on a roadside fence, the woman holds a dog on a lead.
Chloe and Trent do daily walks with their dog, Rocky.(Abigail Varney)

A young couple hold hands as they walk their dog down an industrial street.
Chloe and Trent hold hands as they walk Rocky.(Abigail Varney)

A young couple with their backs to the camera look at a gas BBQ stading on grass by a river.
While parts of Launceston are protected from flooding by levees, the stretch of land occupied by homeless people sits right by the water.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A small dog lies down on a bed with leaf-patterned sheets and a teddy bear inside a caravan.
Rocky lies down on Chloe and Trent's bed inside their caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
A young woman with a high ponytail stands in the doorway of a caravan speaking to a mobile phone.
Chloe at the doorway.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
A set of keys hangs on the wall of a caravan.
Keys to the caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
Black and white image of the back of a caravan that says "vista shifta" on it.
Back of the caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
Small square pictures are hung up on the wall of a caravan.
Art on the caravan wall.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
A gas BBQ and small dog house in front of a river.
Gas BBQ outside the caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A collage with a photo of a woman pulling a garden hose and a man doing the same.
Before the hose extension, the couple used to carry water to the caravan in buckets.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

Miscellaneous items including a bike and a washing machine behind a makeshift fence by a small caravan.
Appliances such as a washing machine have made all the difference in life in the caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A young woman turns on a water tap on a wall.
Chloe shows where they get their water supply from.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
Clothes drying on wire fences and a clotheslines.
Clothes drying outside the caravan.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)
A black and white photo of a jumper hanging on a wire fence outside.
A jumper hangs on a wire fence.(Abigail Varney / Oculi)
A young woman sits in a garden chair and shields her eyes from the sun with her hand.
Chloe sits in the front yard.(Abigail Varney /Oculi)

A woman and man walk their dog back to their caravan by a river.
Chloe and Trent return to their caravan.(Abigail Varney)

A young man and woman walking past a caravan, the picture is focused on the river landscape behind them.
Chloe and Trent head out for their daily walk with Rocky their dog.(Abigail Varney)

The heads of a young woman and man are out of focus in the bottom left corner, a jogger is exercising up on a hill behind them.
Chloe and Trent head out for their daily walk with Rocky, their dog.(Abigail Varney)

A young man holding a glass bottle and woman with her hands in her pockets stand in front of a caravan.
Chloe and Trent have a chat while they fill up the water tank in their caravan.(Abigail Varney)

A man carries a girl on his shoulders as he walks towards a car
 Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla says he came back to the land from Alice Springs. (Rachel Mounsey/Oculi)

Louise Goode shouts as her former house is demolished behind her.
Louise ran in front of the digger, prompting it to stop temporarily. (Sean Davey/Oculi)

Two women in a greenhouse
Melanie and her daughter, Maxine, South Hobart Co-housing Co-op, Strickland Avenue, South Hobart, Tasmania(Supplied: (Nur) Aishah Kenton )

A man kneels down to give a kiss to a red heeler dog
Red heeler Boomer with his owner's social worker.(Abigail Varney)

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