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Welcome to Australia’s Tin City

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TIN CITY WAS a camp made up of a community of homeless men in the late 1920’s during the Great Depression. The shacks are governed by a one hundred year lease signed in 1920 under longstanding squatters settlement, and the shacks are not owned but are privately occupied and passed down to family and friends.

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