This has come to light because of a story in the news recently, its an ALEGED case of neglect by the mother of 12 (i think) children in a 4 bedroom housing trust house. Now i was lissioning to the families and comunity services minister on the radio this morning and to be honest i feel sorry for the guy. He said that the department is currently trying to modify a house so that they can all fit safly and in the mean time the department is working with the family to help impove the lives of these children and there mother (im assuming from the comments of him that its a single parent family). I think we are heading for a change of goverment in this state but i honestly cant see what more the goverment (of either persuasion) can actually do. We have vertually every goverment worker complaining about the pay they are reciving and after seeing the buget i cant honestly see where the goverment can find the needed money. I think the federal goverment is going to need to slash there own surplas to fork in for these vital services
an interesting side note on the origional case http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23924195-5006301,00.html Now the father is telling the papers he is willing to take custody, why isnt he willing to tell the courts this?
orleander did you read the artical? he doesnt HAVE cutody, he is living in vic and she in SA with the children
yes though concidering the fact that CPS is in volved i doubt he would actually want that check. Recently the law has been changed so that state offices of CPS can dictate to centerlink that the money be "income managed". Ie he cant spend $1 anywhere that centerlink and the state officers dont want him to.
