What do you think?

[bushies.girl]

There are approx 100,000 homeless people in Aust, yet the liberal gov wants to spent 100 million dollars on a prebicite re gay marriage    .... Surely this money could be used ( better spent ) providing a home for our homeless?

[davidc4430]

BTW, they are now saying $122million to do a postal vote and after that they still dont have to accept the outcome!

[bushies.girl]

The whole sad saga has become an absolute joke    ...... Dont think it's even legal to call it a vote, more a poll    ...... 122 million dollars for a poll which isnt compulsory, isnt binding, the gov may or may not act on, what a circus the lib party is looking atm.

Turnbull was doing quite a bit of yelling today, lotta hot air seemed to be coming out his mouth but not much else

Sorry homeless peeps, ya house is going to have to wait a little longer 😞

[tezza2844]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

BTW, they are now saying $122million to do a postal vote and after that they still dont have to accept the outcome!

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Apparently it would be cheaper(by about $120 million dollars) to get a polling company to do a poll, it would get the same result. At present if the plebiscite returned a no vote, the Government would say it is a non issued so we can forget it. If it is a yes vote, they can just ignore as it is non binding.

[chameleon54]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

Looking like yet another buck pass by the Libs    ..... More time and taxpayers money  being wasted "trying" to get their plebiscite motion through the senate.

I also have known quite a few homeless people, most of them women, who were fleeing a violent domestic situation. None of them were drug addicts, drunks, vandals etc. Many of them did have a mental health problem, mainly caused by the mental and physical abuse they had been subjected to by their partner/s.  Not all homeless people are in this situation by choice.

Of course, there is no  b n w answers but atm, I dont see any answers happening, lotsa promises ( excuses ) but not much action on any important areas.

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I have no doubts there are very large numbers of woman and children forced into homelesness by domestic violence.

I havnt actually seen much of them, but that is probably because I mix socially more with men and have been involved as a supervisor for young male offenders with community work service orders.  Its not " appropriate or safe" for a 50 something YO. man to be associating with vulnerable woman and girls, so while I know thats a problem, I keep right away from that sector.

Having said that I do personally know of one young girl who was homeless at age 14 and yes it all ended pretty tragically as you can imagine.

[myoclon1cjerk]

That money could be better spent. How about we send the front bench plus Tony to Manus or better still Yemen and pay Canada $122 million for Justin Trudeau.

[bushies.girl]

I hope CS is better supervised in SA than it is in Vic    .... 

[bushies.girl]

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@tezza2844 wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

BTW, they are now saying $122million to do a postal vote and after that they still dont have to accept the outcome!

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Apparently it would be cheaper(by about $120 million dollars) to get a polling company to do a poll, it would get the same result. At present if the plebiscite returned a no vote, the Government would say it is a non issued so we can forget it. If it is a yes vote, they can just ignore as it is non binding.

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I will be surprised if this ( supposed ) poll actually takes place   ..... personally i think it's a knee jerk reaction from a gov, who really havent a clue what they are doing

[chameleon54]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

I hope CS is better supervised in SA than it is in Vic    .... 

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Funny you should say that. The programme I was involved in got shut down in a mighty hurry after I had a converstation with one of the offenders. Nice enough guy but one of his past offences was at the very highest level and his placement was unbelievably innapropriate. I reported it to my CS manager and things came to a screaming holt the next day.

I cant tell you the full story, but lets just say, it was all kept VERY quiet and the school kids are all still safe.......:

[davidc4430]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

Personally I like the tent city in Martin Place, it's making a point, the occupants have shelter, food and most important mateship  .....  And they are making a point   .... shame the NSW state gov, isnt "getting" it

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Tent City: Stories of survival behind Sydney's most high-profile homeless community

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-09/tent-city-residents-share-stories-of-survival-inside-sydney-ca...

what help could be afforded these people with 122 million $

[bushies.girl]

It would appear our esteemed Pm now feels the need to let us know, what a strong leader he is   ....... hmmmm another lie?