Too poor to leave Australia. These people are trapped with no safety net

It's central Sydney, and as winter settles in, support services are warning that more deaths like this will happen.Some are mothers who have fled arranged marriages and international students who would rather die of shame than tell their families.They are homeless, like Bikram Lama, who The Guardian reported to be a former international student from Nepal The divorce process is ongoing.Shree has been able to secure short-term crisis accommodation with the Women's & Girls' Emergency Centre (WAGEC), a service for women impacted by domestic violence and homelessness.Of the 200 women in its refuges on any given night, up to 50 per cent of them are non-residents."When we have a vacancy, we're often choosing between three, four, sometimes five families about who gets that room tonight," CEO Nicole Yade told 7.30.Shree's story is common for non-resident women who come through the refuge."She's been brought to Australia by her partner, and then if she experiences domestic violence when she gets here, he's able to cancel her application … which then makes her ineligible for any social security, including Medicare [and] Centrelink," Ms Yade said