I've done everything from burglaries, break in and enters, home invasions, to being accused of things, stealing, murder and rape

The biggest problem with street people is that they have no fixed place of abode.

Life is fucked. But then again, it’s good on the streets because people help you out. You take up drugs, and then you find you’ve got Hep C!

I think the violence is increasing in some respects because people are getting more brazen

I've never done a dirty deal. If it's not good enough for me, it's not good enough for anyone else

We do see a lot of homeless people and one good thing to be aware of is that there’s different levels of homelessness

I understand you actually wanted to be picked up by the police and sent to Rangeview because you had nowhere else to stay

When it comes to having young people hanging around the city, I like to find them a place to stay

I think the danger of Northbridge is very over hyped because people express concerns over what they hear about Northbridge

If I hadn’t left my dad, I would still be getting bashed. I take each day as it comes, so I don’t know what I’ll do next

We get a few fights but I think it’s pretty tame compared to what the news would like to see

When they first started the curfew, they were just taking anyone off the streets, but then they found they had too many to work with

I used to see a lot of disorderly behaviour, violence, assaults, fare evasions and general misbehaviour from all classes of people

The Northbridge curfew? Ha ha (laughs for 10 seconds!) Is this a joke? I don’t know, I’ve never seen it

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. It’s just awe-inspiring the amount of law that young people think they know

A lot of kids want to come back, they get medical care, looked after by the staff meals, change of clothes... especially the streetkids

Some children are running wild in the early hours of the morning when parents need to have more of an accountability for them

There’s nothing they can really do to stop homelessness. They’ve got the freedom to do whatever they like

Street-based statistics of young people present in Northbridge (July 2001)