The state government has threatened to treat First Nations and environmental groups as trespassers if they continue to use a historic home in the Blue Mountains that was once an infamous “house of horrors” but was reclaimed as a community hub.

But a former state and federal MP and stalwart of the Labor party has criticised the Minns government as “unethical” and “ignorant”, for enforcing the eviction of the groups from Clairvaux in Katoomba.

The NSW government has been gradually evicting longstanding tenants from Clairvaux over the past several years. Last month it transferred responsibility for the property from the department of communities and justice to the department of land and property, which is in charge of divesting surplus government property and selling it to the private secto

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