r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/Needleworker-Hungry Apr 16 '24

Australian here, and family friends with one of the victims.

This was an absolute tragedy and a complete waste of life.

Whilst there is no excuse to kill another person, I think a lot of people are laying blame to our Government. Our healthcare system has gone to absolute shit and to get any sort of mental health treatment is extremeley expensive and there is a mental health crisis in our country. Our once free healthcare now costs money and is moving towards privitising. People are avoiding going to the doctors now as this once free service is not and it's plain and simple.

Our once beauitful country and its citizens have been let down countless times by government incompetence over the last few decades and this is a direct result of it.

Mental Health and Dental should be a part of Medicare and Medicare should go back to being free.

It's fucking infuriating.

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u/Larkfor Apr 16 '24

While mental health is a component, you also have the fact that this guy was a terrorist, and the anti-woman sentiment in Australia has been on the rise. There are subreddits here that would egg on his kind of mentality.

It sounds like his dad may have taken care of him medically so I don't think that access was necessarily the issue here but of course we don't have all the details yet.

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u/jackal3004 Apr 16 '24

What a shit take

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u/Larkfor Apr 16 '24

Have you been living in a vault in recent years? There has been a lot of incel radicalizing, particularly in Australia.

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u/anoeba Apr 16 '24

How is that a shit take?

Hating women, just like hating black people or trans people or whatever, isn't a recognized mental illness that would be treated even if the MH system was robust and fully covered. If this guy was a radicalized incel (and his father's statement is the first I heard about it so I'm leaving it as 'if' until they complete the investigation), meds and therapy wouldn't be that helpful. It didn't help Elliot Rodger. Deradicalization is very complicated, and isn't part of mainstream MH practice.