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skua<p>3/3</p><p>I'm thinking that what's happening around this is another aspect of the value system that's given us <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InstitutionalisedChildAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InstitutionalisedChildAbuse</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScottMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottMorrison</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CovidFreedomMarches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidFreedomMarches</span></a>, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingCrisis</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DomesticViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticViolence</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrugAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugAbuse</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suicide</span></a>, and entrenched harassment, discrimination and bullying.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a> aren't all they're cracked up to be. And are producing fair bit of misery.</p>
skua<p>2/3<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a></p><p>Back to Option C. "no one wanting to visit them".</p><p>Folk sought to increase communication between Fam&amp;Friends and Aged Care residents.<br>Made an app.<br>Technically a success.<br>But it appeared to them that Fam&amp;Friends actually didn't want to communicate with the elderly person in care.</p><p>Am asking, "In purely selfish things, what do you get for you out of interacting with geriatric / frail / senile / institutionalised aged folk?"</p><p>Anything at all?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhyBother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyBother</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Values</span></a></p>
skua<p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a><br>Looking at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a>.</p><p>In the light of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> both commercialised and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgingInPlace</span></a>.</p><p>Claim is that some 50% of institutionalised aged care recipients don't get even one visitor a year.</p><p>It's been pointed out that many of these folk will have made choices that; A. had them lacking a support community, B. had them with no friends/family who they wanted to visit them, and/or, C. have no one wanting to visit them.</p><p>Their choices form part of Australia's values.</p>
Drop Bear<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://theblower.au/@MaxG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MaxG</span></a></span> <br>Some think they've saved Australia. Regret might come later (if they have the wits to realise what they've done).</p><p>On the other hand:<br>"When asked whether he had any plans to heal the nation he had so bitterly divided, or close the gap between First Nations and the rest of the community, Dutton hissed “No!” and vanished in a puff of sinister smoke."<br><a href="https://chaser.com.au/national/peter-dutton-kills-voice-makes-new-horcux/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chaser.com.au/national/peter-d</span><span class="invisible">utton-kills-voice-makes-new-horcux/</span></a><br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/VoiceToParliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceToParliament</span></a></p>
Drop Bear<p>This is an old Facebook post from a 'No' campaigner. Some, it seems, saw themselves as valiant defenders of Australian values.</p><p>Though I don't agree, I can respect that.<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/950642862921772/posts/976599693659422/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/groups/9506428629</span><span class="invisible">21772/posts/976599693659422/</span></a><br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/VoiceToParliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceToParliament</span></a></p>