Comments on: Talking the town: Therese Rein launches into a sea of hugs http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/talking-the-town-therese-rein-launches-into-a-sea-of-hugs/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sean http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/talking-the-town-therese-rein-launches-into-a-sea-of-hugs/#comment-28842 Sean Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:58:21 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/talking-the-town-therese-rein-launches-into-a-sea-of-hugs/#comment-28842 The thing is that NSW DoCS is continuing to take children away from their parents on the hint of a whiff of suspicion these days, due to craven fear of a negative headline in the Daily Tele. DoCS and the entire 'child protection' court system are known in child protection circles as being devoid of logic and deeply and hypocritically inconsistent in their judgements from case to case, taking great pains with trivial cases while letting much more severe cases go unchecked in the community. The cases in front of DoCS that they know about and the social profile of abuse, neglect and risk of harm that is taking place in communities are almost completely disjunctive sets. They frequently void their own legislative precept, supposedly enshrined in the Act, of removing children as an option of last resort, often making it the option of first resort. Placing children at least with other family members as recommended in the Act becomes immaterial. They still show up at households at 2 am with the police in tow to remove children from their families or familial foster carers. Scratch the surface and listen to some of the unhappy 'clients' of DoCS and you start to get a very disturbing picture of Kafkaesque state interference indeed. It makes the heartwarming event described above rather pointless. Somewhat artless and trusting indigenous people have been used for political end again. The thing is that NSW DoCS is continuing to take children away from their parents on the hint of a whiff of suspicion these days, due to craven fear of a negative headline in the Daily Tele. DoCS and the entire ‘child protection’ court system are known in child protection circles as being devoid of logic and deeply and hypocritically inconsistent in their judgements from case to case, taking great pains with trivial cases while letting much more severe cases go unchecked in the community. The cases in front of DoCS that they know about and the social profile of abuse, neglect and risk of harm that is taking place in communities are almost completely disjunctive sets.

They frequently void their own legislative precept, supposedly enshrined in the Act, of removing children as an option of last resort, often making it the option of first resort. Placing children at least with other family members as recommended in the Act becomes immaterial. They still show up at households at 2 am with the police in tow to remove children from their families or familial foster carers. Scratch the surface and listen to some of the unhappy ‘clients’ of DoCS and you start to get a very disturbing picture of Kafkaesque state interference indeed.

It makes the heartwarming event described above rather pointless. Somewhat artless and trusting indigenous people have been used for political end again.

]]> By: David1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/talking-the-town-therese-rein-launches-into-a-sea-of-hugs/#comment-28782 David1 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:37:52 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/talking-the-town-therese-rein-launches-into-a-sea-of-hugs/#comment-28782 You wouldn't have got Mrs Bucket within kilometres of such a gathering...Kirribilli, chardonay, cannapes and little finger at appropriate angle thankyou very much for the former PM's wife. Wonder if she is knocking out a batch of scones for Johnnie in their retirement. You wouldn’t have got Mrs Bucket within kilometres of such a gathering…Kirribilli, chardonay, cannapes and little finger at appropriate angle thankyou very much for the former PM’s wife. Wonder if she is knocking out a batch of scones for Johnnie in their retirement.

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