Lisa Neville & Pakville Detention Centre
It seems our Community Services Minister Lisa Neville has no idea what goes on inside a detention centre and her answer to those who deface the prison and sticking toothpaste in smoke detectors will be forced to clean up their graffiti.
There has to be a better method her suggestion of force, does she have any idea what this might entail at all. Has she ever spent a day just as an observer to see what goes on in these centres.
Maybe it is about time the Community Services Minister sought some time with those who have spent most of their childhood in those places, in case she is not aware there was 110,000 of us in Victoria and that number appears to be growing.
I’m sure the minister has heard of these people, after all there has been countless inquiries all over the country, and what came out of these inquiries, the countless number who had spoken of abuse, mental, physical and neglect; and still they have not heard our cries of anguish and pain, we are the Forgotten Australians (care leaver or System Leavers), Child Migrants and the Stolen Generation.
When will this state finally agree to a royal commission, which is needed, without it, they will never get the answers to whether there is a need for detention centres for juveniles, and maybe get the answers to the prevention of child abuse.
Yes Minister Lisa Neville I think it is time you consulted those who know not those that only know the theory and theory is only paper work.
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Where does the Forgotten Australian fit today
Forgotten Australians are from a society where economics or social capital was exploited by those organizations and government that had the power and were and still are in a position where they are not obliged to respond to their methods of socio economics
When their use by date had come along the Forgotten Australian had to use their wits to survive, only to be told they were wrong and should know better. There was no better, this was the best they could get, they created their own values an...d morals they are the survivors of a system that gave so many no tools as children.
Excerpt from Red Tape Rape pp.78
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“Without an education a job or family support, I was left on the streets and became involved with petty crime. Selling stolen goods to keep myself in food and alcohol, I was drinking two bottles of Drambui a day. I was in a constant daze, trying to come to grips with my life and past traumas.” |
Resorting to prostitution, selling drugs, many did this to get an earn so rent, electricity and gas could be paid; the system told us we were wrong, this was the same system that never gave us the tools to survive.
The tools they were never given as children are offered to them now. Many of them are in the twilight years and as the old cliché goes you can’t teach an old dog a new tricks.
How many FA’s, SG’s and CM’s are in jails today because they were trying to survive. The only education they had, they picked up on the streets these were the rules of engagement.
These people are known by some as the Forgotten Australians, Wards of the State or Careleavers, what they are called today makes no difference, it’s all about getting the recognition, they were neglected and abused 500,000 of them.
And some dare to tell us to protest in silence