Sheltered housing

Nice place to visit if you don't mind being kept awake nearly all night and workers eager to go thru your belongings. At $350 pw is outrageous.

This place needs to be bulldozed . The place is like a Zoo with the exhibits roaming free and terrorising the neighbourhood daily . This place takes no responsibility for its residents and just rakes in the cash to line their pockets whilst Wilston is turned into a sub par suburb because of this place . I feel sorry for the next door neighbours their property values must be horrendous

An anonymous review from a disgruntled former resident who was evicted. Soup has never been a main meal at lunch times. Milk is used in cereal not water which residents pour for themselves and there is a zero tolerance for alcohol and drugs on the premises. Murray Lodge has housed many hundreds of people over almost three decades many of whom had no where else to go and have a lovely home with caring staff in a beautiful location. Some residents who moved on still come back to visit. This type of review denigrates the people residing at Murray Lodge and is very hurtful and untrue. People with mental health issues and disabilities who need support do not deserve to be treated as second rate citizens and they have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. Some staff have been at Murray Lodge for over a decade and some residents for over 20 years.

Staff aren't anywhere close to professional, the food is absolutely disgusting, very unhygienic people, very unhygienic place, everyone bums smokes and everything else you have because the lodge takes all the money, and some people there need to be in a nursing home, don't live there! If you do, u will regret it!

Staff who work here are very passionate and caring about their clients, they always go above and beyond of what is required of them. The facility is cleaned on a daily bases to ensure the residents have a clean and suitable living condition.

An absolute Hoval of the neighbourhood

I know a resident in there where and regularly see that Pamela is Manipulating and vindictive. She has no place in a CARING position let alone with power. She lied about their location saying was Windsor not Wilston (perhaps age and stress)?. Residents own homes and NO ONE has their rates paid via trust funds and um trying to initiate an ENQUIRY INTO LADY PAMELA and the constant misgivings. Never have I been a resident but have had dealings with THE MATRON and sadly all have been negative

The food service at Murray Lodge is average to good, with a menu ranging from lasagna to fish and chips each Friday afternoon; with hot porridge with diluted milk in winter for breakfast. The milk served at breakfast is merely powdered milk. While I lived at Murray Lodge, I needed to take Vitamin D and Calcium supplements to compensate for the lack of sunlight and adequate nutrition.The average hot lunch at Murray Lodge is 'budget' shepherd's pie or beef stroganoff, along with a sausage sizzle BBQ with salad and ice cream every six weeks at dinner time. This BBQ is organized by a local Christian church - a Christian charity that tried to make me feel guilty for being openly gay, telling me, a man with a disability that included chronic depression and suicidal ideation at one stage - that I was going to hell if I refused to accept Jesus Christ as my personal saviour.While I lived there, an Indian Sikh woman named Sim started to work the Saturday afternoon/Sunday morning shift. She refused to cook us our usual bacon and eggs, citing religious reasons, despite a considerable increase in rent all throughout 2015/2016 to cover the cost of the bacon and eggs on toast that were promised to us by Teresa. One weekend, Kelly Bolton (an Australian Catholic worker with no religious hang ups) had to cover Sim's shift to ensure that we ate the breakfast we paid for that Sunday morning.The other residents at Murray Lodge were an eclectic bunch of what I like to refer to as lazy misfits. There are people living with intellectual disabilities, with a number of mainly middle-aged men living with addiction, mental illness and depression. The average resident at Murray Lodge is male, is in their late forties-early fifties, suffers from a chronic form of mental illness and is a loner. I'd say that 80% of the residents at Murray Lodge are smokers.Indeed, most of the men living on the top landing could work at least part-time if they really wanted to - their only impediment to gaining meaningful employment seemed to be apathy, a nicotine addiction and poor hygiene habits.There are a few wheelchair-bound men at Murray Lodge and several elderly and frail people who live there who otherwise would be homeless if it were not for Murray Lodge.There are a number of young men who live at Murray Lodge - schitzophrenics - who exhibit concerning behaviours like psychosis, paranoia, social withdrawl and substance abuse - but you come to realise that Murray Lodge is a safe haven for the socially disadvantaged - people who have nowhere else to go. In a way it's sad that places like Murray Lodge exist, but Murray Lodge is a close community that needs to exist nonetheless.