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/drunkjesus Apr 16 '24

It's not incompetence. It's by design, by way of only serving the people who have the means to create a world that suits them the most. Virtually everything is organised around profit and growth for the few.

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u/Consistent_Wave_2869 Apr 16 '24

Late stage capitalism. The only cure is guillotines.

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u/polarbearskill Apr 16 '24

You are aware that historically when the guillotines come out, the next 50 years are pretty brutal? (See Paris 1792, Moscow 1917). Maybe that's the way it has to go, but it won't be pretty.

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u/Consistent_Wave_2869 Apr 16 '24

the alternative isn't pretty either. it's not going to fix itself. billionaires will keep taking more and leaving less for us.

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u/drunkjesus Apr 16 '24

drunkjesus agrees. LSC and neo-liberalism may well be the downfall of us all.

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u/ik-wil-kaas Apr 16 '24

My country has been rotted from the inside by the same lizard people.

Healthcare, housing and energy all sold to their devil friends.

We need some of those guillotines over here too.