ANDREW Purnell, Cindy Drummond and their six-year-old daughter Isabella have been sleeping in a backyard tent for the past three weeks.

They, along with their other children Xavier, 23, Skye, 21, Jessica, 18, and Benjamin, 16, are homeless, left victims of a deepening rental crisis in regional Australia.

In October last year, their landlord announced plans to sell a three-bedroom property Andrew...