Australian aborigines in a remote community in Victoria say they are being driven off tribal freehold land by ever-increasing rents.
The aboriginal sharehold-owners have collectively owned the freehold property at Lake Tyers since 1981.
Lorraine Sellings, a resident from a shareholder family, said her rent went up without notification and she and her three children had been evicted.
Another resident was charged with trespassing in his own house after he found it too difficult to pay the rent charged by the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.
The administrators say rents have increased by about $30 a week compared with a few years ago, and that the money is spent on maintenance, council and water rates.
