Tag: Social Welfare

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Family in distress as Police Fixated Persons Unit hits the wrong target, again – Michael West

Rex Patrick, NSW Police Fixated Persons Unit

This is an everyday experience Indigenous Australians dealt with for years. Stan Grant spoke of the fear felt when Social Services knocked. The kids immediately ran in fear and hid.

The aftermath of police mistakes The warrant to take the children should never have been issued. The Children’s Court orders should never had been made. Yet the DCJ think it’s reasonable that Angela should be out of pocket for the ordeal. This story is a true story, but for two things. 1) All the names have been changed for legal reasons and 2) the words in this article fall far short of properly describing the trauma caused by the events. A gross misfeasance has taken place; a gross misfeasance that could happen to anyone in NSW who doesn’t have half a million Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) followers, like Friendly Jordies does. The NSW Premier, Chris Minns, ought to intervene directing the Secretary of the DCJ, Michael Tidbal, to not only pay Angela’s Court cost, but also compensation – although the Premier must recognise that no amount of compensation will ever really heal the children’s trauma.

Source: Family in distress as Police Fixated Persons Unit hits the wrong target, again – Michael West

Unemployed

Universal Basic Income: How to do it right – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The threat of Artificial Intelligence effectively doing jobs has raised fears that tomorrow’s world will be increasingly jobless. There are competing proposals to resolve the societal fallout of a jobless world.

Source: Universal Basic Income: How to do it right – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia's Shame

Indigenous kids are still being removed from their families, more than ever before | Larissa Behrendt | Australia news | The Guardian

There is an important statistic missing from the Closing the Gap report and its absence masks a major crisis facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

Source: Indigenous kids are still being removed from their families, more than ever before | Larissa Behrendt | Australia news | The Guardian

Australia's Shame

Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families | John Pilger | Comment is free | The Guardian

John Pilger: The mass removal of Indigenous children from their parents continues unabated – where is the outrage?

Source: Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families | John Pilger | Comment is free | The Guardian

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