THE NEW ASYLUMS - right near you!
Neighbours and residents of Department Housing establishments are becoming
increasingly perturbed at the increased criminal activity and quantity of
psychiatric patients in their streets. They are having to put up with abuse,
vandalism and violence. While the courts take there time to deal with aggressive
and life threatening individuals, the Dept. of Housing neglects to do anything
with their tenants, few who want to help themselves.
The sick residents have been guilty of taking knives on others, threatening
with death and/or removal of limbs, throwing sharp objects - at neighbours,
residents and visitors. The less dangerous have been the multitude of AVOs
some take out on each other and the courts will attest to this, as the police
will the many phone calls and arrests they make. And then there are other
patients without sufficient care and are neglected and some become derelict
and even suicide. For some, nurses come twice a day to give medication, this
has been gradually introduced giving the residence more the look of a psychiatric
ward and indoctination centre with law and order behavourist officers telling
residents how to live and multitudes of No Smoking signs on all levels inside
and outside the droll buildings .
Dept of Housing buildings all over NSW are now the repository of the sorry
souls as the mental institutions are no longer open if only to remedicate
them and send them back in the community within two weeks, after an altercation.
The percent of psychiatric persons occupying Housing Commission today is
80% as against less than 10% twenty years ago when the Richmond Scheme was
introduced in order to assimilate the mentally ill into the community and
thence to be able to close the asylums. The crimes committed are soon forgotten
as the court cases are dismissed under Section 32 of The Mental Health Act
- what would have been a five year sentencce for assault results in nothing
but a charge and the psychiatric case is out on the streets immediately and
this you'll find is increasingly reported in nightly news broadcasts.
Manly abounds with such as there are many Dept of Housing buildings at Cove
Av, Tower St., Pittwater Rd and then theres the Pioneer Clubhouse and East
Wing Psychiatric Ward - these are the honey pots as well as Manly Library,
Hum Cafe ...watch your back!