Category: vulnerable

South Australia Implements COVID-19 Phone Monitoring Program to Support Vulnerable

January 26, 2022
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The South Australian Government has spent $2.3 million (US$1.65 million) to establish a new phone monitoring program that calls vulnerable residents with COVID-19 twice a day to ensure they have adequate support during home isolation. In a media release on Tuesday, Premier Steven Marshall said the COVID Home Telephone Monitoring Program from Wellbeing SA is boosting the…

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Stop the Lies: Lockdowns Did Not and Do Not Protect the Vulnerable

June 18, 2021
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Commentary Lockdowns didn’t protect the vulnerable, but rather harmed them and shifted the morbidity and mortality burden to the underprivileged. We locked down the healthy in society, which is nonsensical, while at the same time failing to properly protect the actual group that lockdowns were proposed to protect: the vulnerable and elderly. Any epidemic or…

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More Than 7300 Incidents of In-Care Abuse in Victoria, Report Finds

March 30, 2021
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Vulnerable teenagers placed in residential care under Victoria’s child protection service were subjected to violence in 2019-2020, with more than 700 suffering serious physical and sexual abuse, a report has found. The annual report by Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young Persons (pdf) also found that of the 7300 incidents reported for that year, eighteen…

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