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A blurry image of a white SUV crashed and in flames by the side of the road.

"The driver couldn't even see over the steering wheel,"
Ms Freeman said.
An older woman smiles with leafy palms behind her.

A long, empty road.

"Our boundary fence was broken down, which has definitely shaken up the tenants and left them feeling very vulnerable and unsafe."
A composite image of barbed wire and spiked fencing.

"In 30 years, I've never seen it this bad,"
she said.

A police sign at sunset, viewed through a bush.

"The kids feel safer out on the street; it's alive, it's bright, and they're with the ones that care about them, that'll stick up for them."

A young woman in a dark shirt and an older woman in a white polo smile side by side.

"The household is lost … [kids] grow up with parents doing drugs and alcohol and family violence, and they think that it's normal,"
she said.

A black dog on a lead in the foreground with four police officer and one man in a suit behind it

"These kids need to be loved and looked after."
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