At Wagga’s camp for rough sleepers, locals step in to help as authorities flounder

People at the Wilks Park encampment were told to leave or be fined $1,100. But their only option is indefinite stay in local motels – and the social housing wait list keeps growing Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Leigh Swansborough has just pulled into Wilks Park, one of the biggest homeless encampments in regional New South Wales. “You would think that people would be here today,” says Swansborough, an advocate for the people at Wilks Park. “But no one has shown…