PPS is something like 600 a fortnight, plus $60 rent assistance, plus a few hundred in FTA/FTB ...

Back in the dark ages when I was a single parent I was sharing a house right near work. I rented a room out to a guy (there's a lot of paperwork with CL right there) who was only there on weekdays and went back to stay with his mum on weekends. He was a nice quiet Asian chap. My daughter used to boss him around something fierce and he'd do anything she said, and I'm not sure if it was a personality thing or a cultural thing but she liked it anyway

Get a house near a uni or TAFE and rent a room to a student, preferably not a white male party type or you'll have a house full of drunks.