From Sydney Indymedia:

If you’re down on your luck, no place to go, and find yourself on Oxford Street in Sydney’s gentrified Darlinghurst, you could soon count on local businesses to come to your “aid” with a pamphlet stating (among other things):

Local business has pledged to make the new Oxford Street pavements as PLEASANT as possible. Did you realise asking people for money makes it UNPLEASANT? That’s what our customers tell us all the time. We’re sorry you’re down on your luck – but did you know there’s NO REASON for
you to damage our businesses and make the street UNPLEASANT?

How generous are these businesses, and their care for the community! Not even a half-eaten discarded gourmet foccacia that will cost them nothing, of 2% of their combined profits to improve living conditions in the inner city. Just enough money to produce some pamphlets and distribute to undesirables to “save” their businesses.

If you’re like me and offended by this notion, find out when and from what businesses are coming to the street, and boycott them!!! Make it bad for their business.

Show them that the only way to improve business is to support community members, not push them to one side.