Corny, they have come to my house with my printed out posts in their hands.

You'd be shocked at what they have done to children in my care.

Maybe you would be slightly confused at what they have said and done to me but I am completely horrified by it.

How they have dealt with other sites to shut them down is pretty amazing but especially when they work in tandem with the NGO lawyers.

DOCs is in fact intrusive and no doubt is reading what some of us say.
Now TPP,fairdinkum, do not be too hard on your self.
I and a lot of other posters ruffle feathers often.
I see very little difference in you than most.
You tend to live in the world you inhabit,as I do.
Now that Anti quote, he lacks balance,has been hurt,quite a lot of men, good men have been.
But its not worth considering unbalanced quotes like that.
Seems you know more about C J Morgans sites than me, never looked, will not if it has become a sand box for bitterness.
Yes seems to be the answer those two are gone, I have no idea who inhabits that site and would like foxy to return.
Is every deleatedpost there?
Start a thread on DOC,s it would fly, my village has two industry's,the timber employs 12 fostering employs twice that in a village of 100 or less.

jinny, the definitive online reference on Australian laws is the Australian Legal Information Institute, available at http://www.austlii.edu.au/.

Good luck.

Belly, I regret making the remark in the way I did, but I stand by the sentiment expressed. Some people are making a very tidy income out of serial fostering. I have no problem with that except for the hypocrisy of pretending that it's all out of some saintly altruism.

Could it be that one of the reasons DOCS gives people like TPP a hard time is that they realise it's easy to milk the system and the money is already tight?

". Some people are making a very tidy income out of serial fostering."

Posted by Antiseptic, Saturday, 20 November 2010 6:15:58 AM

That's why you see so many foster parents driving late model Bentleys and that ever present copy of the Financial Times tucked under their arms.

Everyone knows how cheap and easy it is to raise kiddies - especially ones from broken, disfunctional families.

Or was Anti being very nasty to Pied Piper? Antiseptic being nasty? Nah! Just take a look at his posting history - he is the embodiment of compassion and tolerance.

Oh look outside, I just saw a flying piggie.

He did it again. Now I am milking the system. DoCS are mean to me because I am taking huge sums of money off them?

I don’t have a car Johnny but I do have a very cute flying pig mobile hanging in the playroom. Anti spent a bit of time last year doing this as well.

Anti I went to the Ombudsman and made a formal complaint about DoCS creating a plan that caused an incredible amount of harm for a sibling group in my care.

Two managers came to my home a few months later saying I had been seen online and a complaint about a post was made anon to DoCS in Queensland. Since then there have been several meetings that included me being talked to about my posts online including OLO ones. Hosts of websites have been written to about me and others to request information about us. I have been warned that first slip up and the crown solicitor will be contacted.

Parents online claim after posts they have had access to their children who are in foster care restricted. Another person had their computer taken by the police as evidence concerning her online posts about DoCS.

But the NGO’s joined the party and their lawyers are busy writing to site owners and server owners saying that the information appearing about them online is ruining their reputation in the community. I have copies.

Belly I get something must have happened, his focus is on money and so I can only assume child support is ripping him off and yes I do believe they ask too much from non-custodial parents here. Anyone else receiving anything from govt instead of giving to them it is the enemy.

I’m working on a thread about NGO’s though, but can’t decide between two different approaches.

Oh, so now this thread is about the Child Protection Industry?

OK then, I have been a foster parent in the past. It was thrust upon me by my daughter who had a soft heart which is difficult to refuse. Child protection had no foster parents and saw I was decent. They pleaded their case. It was a pitiful case about the teenager. I accepted but pointed out the need for mental health services to become involved. I'd already had the girl for a couple of nights before negotiations and she was not well. At every weekly visit, I reinforced the need for this girl to get mental health attention. Two months latter she finally had a tragic major episode in public on the way to school with my children. She spent months in psychiatric care. In the end, Child Protection, had her repatriated with her brother in New Zealand. That also happened to be the other case I pressed with Child Protection. She shouldn't have been in Australia. She should have been returned to New Zealand as soon as her New Zealand foster parent abandoned her here.

I am most underwhelmed by the Child Protection Industry. Understaffed, under-trained and underfunded would be understatements writ large.