Newspoll has not reported according to the three-week schedule it usually observes, but the Financial Review fills the void with the monthly Freshwater Strategy poll. This records a tie on two-party preferred after a 51-49 result in favour of Labor last time, but it’s based on only the slightest changes on the primary vote, with Labor steady on 31%, the Coalition up one on 40% and the Greens down one on 13%. Anthony Albanese is up a point on approval to 38% and steady on disapproval at 45%, Peter Dutton is up two to 32% and down two to 41%, and Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister narrows from 47-38 to 45-39. The poll was conducted Friday to Sunday from a sample of 1055.
So am I. But where were the police? Any help?
Did you not comprehend what I wrote? The Police were there within minutes. I didn’t have enough room in my house to have them live there 24/7 Not to mention that I outlined the enormous amount of help and facilitation they gave me after the incident. I never did anything prior to the major incident occurring for the sake of the kids, if you really want to know. As do so many other women in a similar situation. What they did for me was good enough for me. Unless your solution is to raise taxes to have a cop on the beat on every street to keep the peace. Sounds a bit draconian and Police Statey to me.
Wrt to the closure of the Port Macquarie Child Protection Unit, have you investigated the reason for that? It could simply be that they are preferring to locate the Unit in the more populous Taree area just up the road. One sided examples like that don’t really prove anything to me. However, I have friends in that area and I will ask them for the full story.
Sceptic @ #1949 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 7:41 am
Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Right Side Broadcasting, every right wing media out let in print and online etc etc
Morning all. Thanks for the roundup BK. I see the culture wars roll on between progressives and neanderthals in Australia.
I agree with others that this week has highlighted through tragic crimes the problem with large amounts of untreated mental illness in Australia. The problem is (obviously) inadequate resourcing of mental health beds in public hospitals.
Talking to a friend yesterday who used to work as a Fed public servant in the NDIS, he explained that one problem was state health departments (multiple states) tried to cut state mental health costs by dumping mental health patients onto the NDIS. A national approach to this is needed, as the case of the Bondi attacker demonstrated.
And immigration is already an issue on which the Albanese Government is very vulnerable. In the heat of the moment, Dutton seemed to come out and support the issuing of permanent residence to Bollard Man, but it looks as if cooler heads then advised him to take a big step back, and that’s why he was far more reticent about the security guard. If things start to unravel for Albo over this matter, Dutton will no doubt go for the jugular.
What’s the point of being Prime Minister if you can’t help to facilitate a good deed to an outstanding act of bravery (no I don’t think ‘Bollard Man’ was considering his citizenship prospects as he did it), in a unique situation? I do note that the PM didn’t tell the Immigration Minister what to do, or the Home Affairs Minister. I also note that he expressed caution wrt the second request, probably until all the facts as they pertain to bravery, above and beyond the call of duty, are concerned in his particular case.
I also agree with the conferring of Honorary Citizenship on the dead Security Guard, fwiw.
I also think that we have done things like this in the past. Opening the door to Vietnamese refugees, Bosnian refugees, and the Afghan Translators. On Australian soil we have refused to extradite individuals whom the Chinese government requested we send back home, Chinese students were granted visas in the wake of the Tiananmen Square protests and Falun Gong acolytes are allowed to live here in peace and security.
So, is it really so unusual, meher baba?
C@tmomma says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:43 am
So am I. But where were the police? Any help?
Did you not comprehend what I wrote? The Police were there within minutes. I didn’t have enough room in my house to have them live there 24/7
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So that was the first instance of abuse you experienced from this man?
As for Lake (not Port) Macquarie, it has been in all the news services.
The Labor Families and Communities Services minister Kate Washington said something, …….
But didn’t say the centre would stay open. Just people would be moved around.
I have written to her about child protection issues. A month or more ago. As yet waiting for a reply.
Women and children are unimportant in government decision making.
Accept the fact.
Australian society is not too far distant from some of the male dominated societies we dislike.
Even with Albo’s unwillingness to give the same preferential treatment given immediately to the French ‘bollard man’ of citizenship to the Pakistani security guard injured at Bondi Junction last Saturday. He will only be granted residency.
Double standards part of Australian culture. Between men and women. Whites and non whites.
I haven’t watched this garbage program for many years, and I am unlikely to restart doing so on Sunday.
The problem is (obviously) inadequate resourcing of mental health beds in public hospitals.
No one has disclosed the immediate cause of the Bondi tragedy, what we do know is that Joel Cauchi at 40 was unknown to Police even for Traffic Matters, let alone harming or threatening to harm anyone.
We know he ceased whatever long term medication he was on, perhaps the LameStreamMedia might inquire as to the long term psychological and emotional effects of these medications rather than sensationalising, blame apportioning and shilling for vast sums to be thrown at vested interest?
If ‘women and children are being moved around’, that does NOT mean they are going without help. And Kate Washington is exactly the right person to be doing this job.
From Wikipedia:
Hmm, she must be doing something right for the women and children of her area, and area of responsibility with election results like that.
My family had a holiday shack on Garden Island, where HMAS Stirling is, from the 1920s until 1983, when the Navy evicted us.
I still regularly visit the island by boat, go ashore, fish and dive.
I hope to one day have my ashes scattered there in Luscombe Bay.
Does that meet your requirements?
Abso-bleedin-lutely!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-danger-to-democracy-social-media-giants-in-firing-line-after-stabbings-failure-20240418-p5fkxw.html
Pied Piper. says:
“Backlash about lots of women in positions they should never be in due to quotas not merit.”
OMG. It’s their fault. “Look what you made me do!”
Vile.
I wonder which one is a pariah state?
“UN News@UN_News_Centre
United States vetoes Security Council resolution recommending observer State of Palestine be granted full United Nations membership
Result of the vote:
IN FAVOR: 12
AGAINST: 1
ABSTAIN: 2”
Social media is a dumpster fire.
Is it any wonder mental health is a big issue
C@tmomma says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 10:18 am
If ‘women and children are being moved around’, that does NOT mean they are going without help. And Kate Washington is exactly the right person to be doing this job.
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The child protection workers believe they don’t have enough staff to properly help children in need.
The child protection people, there and in Sydney, believe they need at least 500 more child protection workers.
How can that be clearer?
Without extra support as happens now they expect many more abused children. And there are a significant number now. Regularly in the news.
Apparently OK for many in government. Not their interest. No leadership shown.
Of course this lack of funding support for children occurs in all Australian State governments.
Is it because women and children don’t donate to Labor? Or the Liberal Party either. Others who do get the polices they want. Fact.
Different circumstances for Washington when she won last year. Now people can see her, or more importantly her Labor government priorities, her support likely to drop.
Especially as the No wind farm lobby has been very active in her electorate.
Not that long ago Liberal Bob Baldwin was the local member. Could easily change again with the many new residents moving to that lovely part of NSW.
Q: The problem is (obviously) inadequate resourcing of mental health beds in public hospitals.
As with most issues- there is no easy and simple answer. And definitely not one ‘definitive’ answer.
The myth mentally ill people were suddenly dumped on to the streets to save money is a ridiculous and enduring one. Mental health treatment and care, pharmaceuticals, and the role of residential care changed dramatically last century.
When you think about the number of unwell people in our society, it is actually amazing incidents are not a lot higher. The absence of guns helps.
Badthinker: “… what we do know is that Joel Cauchi at 40 was unknown to Police even for Traffic Matters, let alone harming or threatening to harm anyone.”
No, what we do know is the opposite of that:
“Mr Cauchi was previously known to police but had never been arrested or charged in his home state Queensland. He had lived itinerantly for several years and was first diagnosed with a mental illness at 17, Queensland Police said.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68810428
Bad thinking: there’s a lot of it about.
Oliver Sutton says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 10:37 am
I will point out that NSW Police would not have had access to the Queensland Police information without a reason to do so and before the attack there does not appear to have been any reason for the NSW Police to do so. So, use of the term “Police” in this circumstance needs to be specifically defined as to which Police Service is being referred to.
The Hollywood/TV fantasy of being able to pull up criminal data on individuals with a few key strokes is exactly that – fantasy.
The child protection workers believe they don’t have enough staff to properly help children in need.
The child protection people, there and in Sydney, believe they need at least 500 more child protection workers.
How can that be clearer?
Again, suggest a way to pay for it? The Treasurer exists to fairly balance incoming with outgoing. Again, which taxes or charges do you want raised to pay for it all? Or other Service budgets cut into? We can’t advocate for Unicorns without considering the horses for other courses.
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“Mr Cauchi was previously known to police but had never been arrested or charged in his home state Queensland. He had lived itinerantly for several years and was first diagnosed with a mental illness at 17, Queensland Police said.”
BBC reporting on information provided by QPS on an incident that happened in New South Wales, any credibility issues there?
Iirc, he was ‘known to Police’ because he’d made a complaint to Police about his parents, and that’s it.
Being ‘diagnosed with a Mental Illness’
isn’t Notifiable, and since we aren’t told what the ‘mental illness’ is, it’s reasonable to assume there wasn’t one, but he was drugged to the gills for 20 years anyway.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
There’s a Criminal Record, which details Convictions and there’s Criminal History which details Arrests, Summonses and Charges. [and is never expunged].
Joel Cauchi had none of these, he didn’t even have any Traffic History.
C@tmomma says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 10:54 am
The child protection workers believe they don’t have enough staff to properly help children in need.
The child protection people, there and in Sydney, believe they need at least 500 more child protection workers.
How can that be clearer?
Again, suggest a way to pay for it? The Treasurer exists to fairly balance incoming with outgoing. Again, which taxes or charges do you want raised to pay for it all? Or other Service budgets cut into? We can’t advocate for Unicorns without considering the horses for other courses.
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Albanese has given Gina Rinehart, worth $36billion, over $1billion of our taxes for her two mines – Arafura Rare Earth and Liontown Resources.
We are spending $368billion on nuclear powered submarines, plus other war equipment, ‘to keep Australians safe’.
Cut back on both those, give to states to counter the close to 1 million immigrants Labor has supported into this country. For child support workers. To keep Australian children and adults safe.
And there is your money. Many more sources if they wanted to look.
The fact is poor Australians are of no interest to Labor. Especially as Albanese, once housing commission boy, is living in luxury in The Lodge, Canberra.
Rainman @ #1933 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 12:42 am
Actually, it’s worse than that. This place is only welcoming to those on the Labor Right. Labor Lefties (those few that still exist) need not apply.
Player One @ #2023 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 11:15 am
What about us unaligned? I feel fine here.
Mostly Interested @ #2024 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 11:19 am
Yes, you are more welcome than those dastardly Lefties. There is still hope you can be turned 🙂
Actually, it’s worse than that. This place is only welcoming to those on the Labor Right. Labor Lefties (those few that still exist) need not apply.
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Complaint by one of the most prolific posters on this site.
Just like Andrew Bolt standing on the Tribunal steps complaining he is being silenced.
Laurence Tribe ⚖️@tribelaw·
“While a Manhattan jury weighs the evidence of Mr. Trump’s alleged crimes, it’s the American people who will weigh the evidence of Mr. Trump’s actions. His party has allowed him to act with impunity, but Americans voters still have the power to deliver accountability.
“The rest of the country is seeing a side of Mr. Trump that New York City residents have always been familiar with: the guy who’s angry that he hasn’t been accepted in the elite circles he admires and is outraged that others have.”
Mary Trump reveals why Donald Trump is about to take a fall
Mary Trump is speaking out! And she has lots to say about Donald Trump and his Hush money trial. Mary says that the whole process is likely very daunting for Mr. Trump. That’s because she explains, he’s so used to being in control of his own life, and in this process, he has little control.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Katie Phang, Mary Trump explained that Donald Trump tends to freak out and feel “the walls closing in’ when he feels “thwarted.” She predicted that he wouldn’t be able to handle this well.
As the trial continues, it’s almost certain that Trump will once again get himself scolded by the Judge – likely more than once. Donald Trump has no impulse control, he’s piss-poor at hiding his emotions, and since the only emotions he feels are hate and anger, it should not be difficult for the Jury to see right through him.
Irene – Having a crack at Albanese for living in the PM’s residences as evidence that any politician doesn’t care about poverty is ridiculous.
And as for the other items of expenditure that you raised – the annual Federal Budget is about $700 billion per year these days. All governments are going to have multiple spending priorities. Political Parties have to be elected to be able to make spending decisions and to do that they need to spend on a wide range of priorities.
Badthinker: “There’s a Criminal Record, which details Convictions and there’s Criminal History which details Arrests, Summonses and Charges. [and is never expunged]. Joel Cauchi had none of these …”
Put those goalposts back where you first placed them:
“Joel Cauchi at 40 was unknown to Police …”
As has been reported around the country and around the world, Joel Cauchi was known to Police.
Sohar @ #2006 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 10:08 am
If you look closely I think you can see the image manipulation of Dutton’s smile, I went searching and found the original.
Try being a Conservative around here.
Torchbearer
Agreed, the call for more mental health inpatient beds makes me wonder if people see the public hospitals as dumping grounds for those who are deemed unacceptable in society (as they were in C19 – 1980s). Inpatient care has a very important but limited place in mental health. I think the state is comparatively well served in inpatient beds but community services struggle and this is at least in part due to the nature of mental health.
OS
How was he known to Q Police and for what reasons?
FUBAR @ #2032 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 11:28 am
They hate us far worse than they hate you 🙂
The NDIS was sold to the public and the States and Territories as the fix for funding disabilities. It was the Game Changer. It was going to remove the financial burden from the States and massively improve the lives of all those with disabilities.
It has become a financial monster in the Federal Budget, a terrible bureaucracy to deal with for parents, a money siphon for fraudsters, and the States are being criticised for allowing those with long term mental health disabilities to access its services. Gillard and Shorten created this Gordian knot – let’s see them untie it.
OC (and Badthinker):
“Cauchi was known to police in *New South Wales and Queensland* for mental health-related matters.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/14/joel-cauchi-who-was-the-queensland-man-who-carried-out-the-bondi-junction-mass-stabbing
C@tmommasays:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 10:54 am
The child protection workers believe they don’t have enough staff to properly help children in need.
The child protection people, there and in Sydney, believe they need at least 500 more child protection workers.
How can that be clearer?
Again, suggest a way to pay for it? The Treasurer exists to fairly balance incoming with outgoing. Again, which taxes or charges do you want raised to pay for it all? Or other Service budgets cut into? We can’t advocate for Unicorns without considering the horses for other courses.
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Budgets are about choices and the government has found money for child care subsidies for high income families and will pay super on commonwealth paid parental leave. Both polices are fine but governments find it easy to fund its social class then bulks at the cost at things for people not in that social class.
Some seems to be happening in the Middle East and Iran. Oil and Gold have both jumped.
It looks like Israel has begun striking Iran. The flight trackers are showing planes over Iran getting the hell out of Dodge.
Albanese is going to be exposed as a Windsock if he keeps on his present path.
The example from Sturday’s tragedy that he might highlight is the tubby guy who protected his family by blocking the knifeman’s path in a non confrontational manner.
If he had been home sinking a few bevvys while the rest of the family was out shopping, who knows … ?
So, instead of pandering to what he assumes are womens interests, why not talk this guy up and suggest that men accompany their wives on shopping trips and other mundane outings, in other words, act like you’re part of a Couple?
He might find that to be a unifying message that Peter Dutton would have to echo?
But the way he’s going now, he’ll have to be moved on to the ex PMs paddock shortly, perhaps reliving imagined past glories, alongside Tony Abbott?
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Pied Piper.says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:05 am
Backlash about lots of women in positions they should never be in due to quotas not merit.
Good to see the coalition on a vote winner not following labor.
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Hypocrite(s) of first order.
He was known to the Queensland Police.
He was unknown to the NSW Police.
He had only been in NSW for a couple of weeks and had not had any contact with the NSW Police.
Is that a difficult concept to understand?
Do you think that all the State and Territory Police Services and the AFP are one amorphous blob?
Labor in from 57-43 ahead to 50/50ish the public reject the racism -voice etc- and sexism-quotas etc-from the federal labor government.
Coalition have got back in the game thanks to own goals from a left fed gov.
Everyone is feeling a little maligned this morning.
Surprise !
Take a break.
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C@tmommasays:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 8:48 am
Irene @ #1963 Friday, April 19th, 2024 – 8:04 am
Confessions says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 am
I’m so glad to hear this.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will call out a crisis of male violence in Australia and demand that men step up to prevent it, after the number of women killed in violent incidents so far this year reached 24, including five in a stabbing rampage at Sydney’s Bondi Junction last weekend.
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Demand. Is Dreyfus’s action to solve terrorism/violence against women?
So nothing will change. Certainly while the police often do not take ‘domestic’ violence seriously. As Queensland police called a woman’s call for help ‘cop shopping’ a few days before she was killed.
‘He says, she says’ may be the principle many police follow. Hence do little.
Should violence against women be called terrorism? Why is the stabbing, not even death at a church last Monday be treated so very seriously, prison for life?
Yet similar violent acts against a person, likely a woman, gets a slap on the wrist. Or nothing.
More and still more Anti Labor federal government served up by Irene, in her first cab off the rank this morning.
Now, I can speak to this personally. Not like Irene who has all the feels but who has probably never seen a cop car near her except when one passes by in the street.
So, as a years long victim of domestic violence and Coercive Control, I have dealt personally with the NSW Police, the court system and the Police Domestic Violence Unit. I have nothing but good words to say about the way they treated me when I needed them.
My late husband, after years of verbal abuse, throwing things like plates of food and hot cups of coffee at me, escalated finally into trying to strangle me. I was able to break free long enough to call 000. I had enough time to tell them what was going on and my address before he hung up the phone on me. The Police arrived in a matter of minutes. About 5 cars full of them. Lights and sirens going full bore. The children were screaming and crying and the bastard tried to use them as human shields to prevent the Police handcuffing him and taking him away to cool off in the cells overnight. Of course, when they took his statement, it was all my fault, of course. They took photos of the marks on my neck and a statement from me. Then took him away.
Next day, I had the DV Unit ring me to see how I was going and to ask me to come down to the local courts to arrange an AVO because I told them that he had nowhere to go and he had to come back to our house. They arranged a quick court hearing and I can tell you that that AVO saved my life because he was dirty that I had done it to him. I was also given the direct phone number of the DV Unit to call if I needed them. However, as karma is a bitch, he was diagnosed with cancer, Multiple Myeloma, not long after and the kids and I nursed him until he passed away. This allowed me to rehabilitate my psyche and that of my kids.
So, Irene, could you kindly stfu about a subject you obviously have no real idea about and cease to use it as yet another of your opportunistic cudgels to beat the Labor Party with? You obviously haven’t got a clue, couldn’t buy a clue, and no amount of fastidious research on google is ever going to be able to help you find one.
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C@tmomma
Sorry to know you experienced that.
OS
What does “known to police for mental health matters” mean?
Thanks for sharing that story C@t.
Edited for the correct persons name
There is no excuse for domestic violence of any kind and my advice to everyone that at the occurrence of the first incident to end the relationship, immediately.
‘Sohar says:
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:32 am
According to Rose Batty, the Victorian government has dedicated more resources/money to combating violence against women than all the governments in Australia (including federal) combined. However, as recent events here show, this is still a big problem in Victoria. It’s is a cultural thing in this country, fuelled in part by a rampantly misogynistic media, commercial and political bloc, and successive Liberal and Labor governments have shown no will to change things.
One thing I note, however, is that Daniel Andrews made a point of avoiding bigots and misogynists in the media, whereas Albanese seems to embrace them.’
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Some truly blatant big lies in Sohar’s drive by anti Labor slag of the day.