DEAD BODY ANGERS NEIGHBOURS
The New South Wales government stands accused of neglecting public housing tenants following the discovery of a man whose death went unnoticed for up to a year:
Oh well, I guess it's fair enough for public housing tenants to expect the authority that gives them a place to live to also keep tabs on them to make sure they're Okay. I mean, the welfare of those living nearby isn't a neighbourly concern and government is always looking for new responsibilities to assume anyway.
Distraught neighbours yesterday lashed out at authorities for not checking on the man earlier.There were a number of such sad discoveries in 2006 prompting the New South Wales government to promise six-monthly checks on its elderly tenants. This scheme has apparently yet to be put in place. But what difference does it make whether a dead body goes unnoticed for a year, six months or a few hours? Really, monitoring the welfare of tenants seems pointless unless it's done continuously in real time.
Oh well, I guess it's fair enough for public housing tenants to expect the authority that gives them a place to live to also keep tabs on them to make sure they're Okay. I mean, the welfare of those living nearby isn't a neighbourly concern and government is always looking for new responsibilities to assume anyway.
posted by Anonymous at 3:01 PM |
3 Comments:
"Distraught......lashed out". Too bad the ABC omitted "stunned, close knit, nightmare and reeling". An award for best compassionate reporting would surely have followed.
Distraught neighbours alerted police after a year when the man’s letter box was overflowing. This leads me to concluded that:
1 This guy doesn't get much mail in a year; or
2. His letterbox is a wheely-bin with a slot cut into it; or
3. His distraught neighbours are a little slow on the uptake.
"Caring" Lefties use the common refrain "I want to live in a society, not an economy" (often when the fact that conservatives do a better job at managing the economy than Labor/the Left is pointed out).
But they also want to outsource traditional individual/societal/community responsibilities such as charity (confiscate our wages via taxes and hand out "welfare" instead) and now something so basic as keeping an eye on our neighbours' well-being, to "The State".
When you take away one of the basic tenets of a society, our (moral) responsibility to help look after those least able to look after themselves, and tell everyone, "Don't worry about it; it's The Gummint's responsibility," that's not enhancing our society/community, that's gutting it.
Just my 2 cents.
Post a Comment
<< Home