Hundreds gathered in Sydney's Hyde Park for a candlelit vigil to mourn Bikram Lama, a Nepali student who died alone while sleeping rough near the city's parliament building, with his body lying undiscovered for up to a week. His death, alongside that of a newborn at a homeless camp and an Indigenous woman who died of sepsis after being evicted from public housing, has prompted calls for urgent policy reform, with independent MP Alex Greenwich urging the state premier and attorney general to hold a formal inquest into potential government failings. Advocates say Australia's residency-based restrictions on accessing healthcare and social services left Lama, who arrived from Nepal in 2013 to study computer science, unable to escape homelessness, with support workers arguing that homelessness is "solvable — if we as a society choose to solve it."