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The continuing tent city protests in major cities by Australia's homeless continues tonight as an uneasy tension continues to hold in one major city while efforts continue to hear the concerns and plight of the homeless protesters continues.

The eyes of Australia were on Adelaide as the deadline for the tent city to move on passed without movement from the homeless there. However as of going to air the tent city in the Adelaide still stands, perhaps due to the fact that the tent city was visited by both the Member for Mayo Slow-Passenger-1542 and Country Labour Party politician ContrabannedTheMC.

Slow-Passenger called on the members of the Adelaide City Council not to enforce the move on order and confiscate people's belongings, indicating they may lobby the state parliament to suspend the council should they attempt to do so, while Contrabanned distributed food and medical supplies to the members of the tent city and indicated she would help in resisting any attempts to break up the city by council members.

A spokesperson for the Adelaide City Council condemned the remarks by both politicians, saying the council was "Acting well within its rights to ensure that public safety and peace were maintained". When asked why the city had not been broken up as of yet, the spokesperson indicated that it was due to the long weekend and the desire to not interrupt the long prepared plans of council workers and that moves would be made to enforce the move on order by Tuesday at the latest.

In Canberra, the protest at the Seguna Community Park continues, with approximately 100 homeless still occupying the park. The Prime Minister held a press conference just recently, echoing the calls of Slow-Passenger and Contrabanned to the Adelaide City Council, saying that while it was within the rights of the council to enforce move on orders, to do so would be "simply foolish" and repeating the government's commitment to expand on housing programmes implemented by previous governments to ensure that public, social and private housing kept up with demand and that rents stayed affordable for people doing it rough. The Prime Ministers office also extended an invitation to three of the protesting group in the Seguna Community Park to a meeting with the Prime Minister in Parliament House. ABC News understands that spokesperson for the group Daniel Logan has accepted the invitation on behalf of the group and that meeting will take place some time in the next two days.

The Prime Minister also spoke to the people still being affected by the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Kirrily, activating the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment and Disaster Recovery Allowance for those affected by the cyclone stating that Services Australia staff were already on the scene to ensure families and all affected are looked after during their recovery and the Government would continue working with the Queensland Government to ensure that support can most effectively reach those who need it the most.

The recovery effort continues in and around Townsville from the effects of Cyclone Kirrily. As we go to air this evening some 30,000 homes are still without power. In good news however, power has been restored to the majority of water treatment plants and the conserve water notice has been lifted for all areas with the exception of Magnetic Island. Collection of green waste and fallen trees is expected to begin on Monday morning as the clean up continues.

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