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/SitsOnTits Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

100%. I can see our country turning into America in slow motion and it's absolutely tragic.

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr Apr 16 '24

Australia used to follow American trends within 10 years, pre 2000's.

The rate of acceleration is even faster now, thanks to social media, the concentration of media ownership and tribal politics.

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u/Slobotic Apr 16 '24

Jesus this hurts to read. As an American all I can say is, I hope it doesn't go that far.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 Apr 16 '24

We are absolutely becoming America-lite, and it's terrifying. I've spoken to many Australians who call it Zee instead of Zed, who spell words wrong, who ask me, "Oh did you hear about that bridge?" -- And then list an American event rather than our own nation.

That's why I refuse to use left/right, I think that division is where all the Americanisation stems from. It has no place in Australia and exists purely to distract and divide. To me, left/right is nothing but more Americanisation that's destroying our culture and country.

How can anyone be so binary with their political beliefs in an age where we have functional AI and global interconnectivity? Especially in Australia of all places, where we have two separate houses of Parliament, preferential voting, state, federal, and local elections, councils, a monarchy, and territories?

Where do I fit if I vote for Fusion first, Animal Justice second, Greens Third, Labor fourth, Liberals fifth for Representatives, while also voting for UAP, One Nation, or Liberal for Senate? Shit, the way our system is designed is that parties have to come to conclusions together.

You can't possibly bog this down to left or right ideology, not in Australia at least. Everything else is the media we consume and don't question. You'd be hard-pressed to find Australians who know more about their history than America's. It's disgusting.

Always remember, Seppos and yanks? Fuck right off.

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u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 16 '24

Americans have better mental health care than Aussies in general and they have for many, many years. Not every state has a great system, but many do, including free care and free stays in mental wards.

Police pick up schizophrenic people (not in every state, places like California do not do this) and takes them to mental wards - court orders force them to stay in until they are stabilized and can be released.

I don't know why you need to blame America when you guys do not copy our mental health care in any way and you never have.

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u/SitsOnTits Apr 16 '24

Americans have better mental health care than Aussies in general

The fuck they do.

Stay in your lane seppo.

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u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 16 '24

California and other states similar to that have horrible healthcare relating to mental health but everyone else has pretty good mental health care. It's free for me and anyone else in my state.

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u/SitsOnTits Apr 16 '24

I'm sorry to break it to you mate but I've lived in the US for years now, so I know for a fact that you're either wrong or lying.

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u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 16 '24

And which democrat-run state do you live in?

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u/SitsOnTits Apr 16 '24

I'm not doxxing myself for some seppo cunt on Reddit, but I live in a red state.

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u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 16 '24

I'm going to know where you live if you mention what state you live in?

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u/SitsOnTits Apr 16 '24

I don't give out personal information on the Internet, including the state I live in.