Having visited the gold coast on the weekend I noted there were many groups of teens wandering the streets and partying away until the wee hours only to leave their garbage all over the footpaths and in gardens, almost everywhere you look.

I realise these offenders are the -bi-product' of parents who are either 'incapable' or 'unwilling' to teach their kids how to show some respect for what others provide, however, I also thought to myself that the clean up staff quite simply can't cope so, why not make it manditory for those who don't work to get off their ass and pick this crap up.

Why should we the tax payer have to pay for additional clean up staff when we already pay thousands in unemployment benefits so they, the unemployed, can continue to do nothing?

You don't see this in places like Singapore! Why do we have to put up with it here?

Perhaps some of the offenders, if unemployed, would think twice before littering if they had to pick it up.

You continue to look at the world in a different way than me rechtub.
Poor old parents cop it again.
Too easy to say it is upbringing, or todays problem only.
Singapore? do we need to be that controlling?
The Gold coast makes its living providing those mid night drunks.
Every motel had stolen from such and such scratched into even ten dollar clocks.
At the lower end or the top it is party town and that is how humans always party, not nice but I doubt we need to flog them ,yet.

Wow what a schizophrenic post.
Is it the teens, the parents or the dolies you hate most?

Why dont we stop these teens trashing the place rather than expecting others to be employed to clean up after them? Are you sure they are all teenagers? None of them are adults at all? How can you be so certain it is their parents fault? We all know children who play up when they are away from parental scrutiny. Doesnt mean the parents didnt teach them the right way to behave. Alcohol (and its pushers and dealers) would have to take some of the blame for bad behavior in our cities at night.

Have you not heard of johnny cowards creation called "work for the dole"? Did you know it is already "mandatory"? Did you also know young people cant be on the "dole". They must be working, studying or training until 21 or they get nothing. Even then if they live at home and their parents work they get nothing unless they move out.

Bashing dole bludgers is so last century and no one falls for it anymore. It is part of that right wing dog whistle politics that seeks to divide and distract those who if joined in solidarity together would smash the wealthy right wing elites out of their ivory towers and stop them monopolising the power and the wealth of our country.

P.S. I bet a lot of the unemployed would be stoked to be offered a job street cleaning on the Gold Coast.

They are supposed to be taught how important nature is at school. But these young offenders are the first to destroy. I think what they are taught at school is immediately destroyed by their parents examples.
Watch parents taking their kids across the road within 50 meters of a school crossing. Parking in no stopping lane on the opposite side of the road to the school. The parents have everything to be blamed for.

Desmond,

I've always thought it a huge anomaly that modern consumer society seeks to confine children most days within four walls, denying them, for the most part, contact with nature and the wider community - and then attempts to "teach" them about it.
It shouldn't surprise us that they have lost the connection.
My own children would not dream of trashing a public space, or their private space, for that matter. But if they did, they would be the ones cleaning up the mess - not expecting it to be taken care of by others.

rectub,

You: "...for those who don't work to get off their ass and pick this crap up"

For the sake of censorship of this site and being sent to the sin bin again I can't say what I really think, but I volunteer while I'm looking for work.

Not everyone who's unemployed is loving it. I've never experienced anything more morale killing and stressful than how I am at the moment.

I'm seriously considering creating my own job - which creates more stress, and debt - because for some reason I can't get work, and don't you DARE think I don't try. I apply for AT LEAST 3 jobs a day and I'll do ANYTHING.

You tell me why I can't get a job...