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I have given people a couple of train fares when I have run across what you would have to call beggars outside of Melbourne train stations. I never gave money, I bought them a ticket to where they said they were trying to go, if they did not want that then they were presumably trying it on.
About twenty years ago I was working for a major telco and at the time they were undergoing a major infrastructure build around bits of the Melbourne CBD, they laid on a couple of quality control guys who scampered around the CBD checking on construction, one of those has some stories, the beggar who haunted one of the construction sites was taking in a couple of hundred dollars every single day working about 50M of footpath.
There are definitely those in need as evidenced by Steve above, but some are most certainly putting it on and they unfortunately poison things for those who really are in need.
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