Lawrence, who'd been convicted of more than 180 property violations, appeared Monday in Richmond District Court dressed for the slums. A ratty dark-blue track suit hung loosely from his lumbering ...

Streets surrounding Richmond’s injecting room have become littered with huge amounts of rubbish, needles and human waste that has transformed the area into a “ghetto”.

New podcast: The shocking images that helped end Melbourne’s slums. From Richmond to Carlton, Melbourne’s inner suburbs were once home to incredible poverty and crime.

Frederick Oswald Barnett, a committed Methodist, and a team of followers photographed the living conditions in slum pockets in areas such as Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Richmond, South ...

Blood-filled syringes, filthy mattresses and drug addicts defecating in front of children – residents living next to Richmond’s injecting room say the area has become an open air slum and ...

Blood-filled syringes, filthy mattresses and drug addicts defecating in front of children – residents living next to Richmond’s injecting room say the area has become an open air slum and ...