I say again; where were the activists?

Dear Paul,

Thank you for the link.

I do think that what was uncovered by Four Corners
into health care in the remote town of Doomadgee
needs further investigation and for action to be
taken.

What happened at that hospital is just not right.

When young people turn up at the Doomadgee Hospital's
Emergency Department 12 times in under 2 months - people
who need life-saving surgery and a hospital gives them
panadol through a grate and send them away - then they end up
dieing (just one of 3 in the space of a year) - questions need
to be asked.

A shocking situation.

http://abc.net.au/news/2022-03-07/doomadgee-indigenous-teen-rheumatic-heart-disease-death-hospital/1008558716

Here's the link again:

http://abc.net.au/news/2022-03-07/doomadgee-indigenous-teen-rheumatic-heart-disease-death-hospital/100858716

It's not the future yet, so I will make one more comment.

Is Mise,

I asked the same question. I did not get an answer either.

As for Doomadgee, which Paul tells us is 90% aboriginal; what happened to majority rule! The last time so few governed so many was during the British Raj in India.

If there are not any people in the majority to stir the possum, at least locally (surely they have a municipal authority) or at the state level, then they are a very sorry lot of losers indeed, totally lacking self-respect, thanks to the paternalism they have come to expect because of the loud-mouthed Left and their identity/apartheid politics. I suppose, if you are constantly told that you are useless and need government help for over 200 years - including by your own people who appoint themselves as your leaders, you would tend to give up.

Four Corners don't do anything without it being to further a political agenda. Anyone who takes as true anything on Four Corners is soft in the head, or seeing what they want to see as they have the same agenda.

Some people are their own worst enemy. My area was going to be in the Wolfdene dam exclusion area. Many of the homes, & farm workers cottages were allowed to slowly deteriorate as they were to be resumed when dam construction started. This attracted derelict humans for the very cheep rent. These were mostly but not entirely single men who had given up on life. They sat around 24/7, drinking themselves into an early grave. They had no interest & nothing to live for in their sorry state.

We have done this to many aboriginals in remote settlements. Welfare means they have nothing to do, they don't have to grow or hunt their own food, or even build & maintain their shelter. They have no reason to get off their buts....ever. With nothing to do, & no need to do anything, what would you expect, but a life similar to the derelicts that once lived around here.

Years ago a mission, or a grazing property camp would inject some interesting activity into those lives, devoid of the old tribal need for food & shelter, but that was replaced by welfare, leaving nothing.

I have visited probably hundreds of villages in the Pacific Islands. With mo welfare these are busy if not bustling places, with people going about providing for themselves & families. I never saw the abject failure of life there, that I found in coastal villages in Australia. It is welfare that is destroying bush aboriginals, just as it destroyed the derelicts that once lived around here.

OK, so I'm smart enough to see the problem, pity I can't see an answer.

Indigenous leaders have been protesting and calling for
investigations into the deaths happening at Doomadgee
hospital. The 4 Corners program shows how publicity in
community lead initiatives can help towards solving
problems that exist.

State Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed that
deaths are under investigation and standards of care delivered
and management practices at Doomadgee Hospital are now under
scrutiny.

Indigenous leaders have complained in the past and protests
have occurred as well - however the 4 Corners program has
helped. Let's hope it will result in solving the problem.