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You appear to believe you're entititled to insult members if they have a different view point to you; good idea for you to get a refresher on forum rules. BTW the points I raised were established by the Rutherham Report, so would be constructive, before commenting again to read the entire report.

Thanks for the feedback. If I recall correctly from the Rotterham Report taxis were picking up juveniles from Social Sevices residencies, nothing was done, so yes a complete breakdown.

It is highlighted that many of the the victims of abuse were heavily into street drugs and alcohol (covered in the Rotherham Report) with significant level of failure of parental control. Clearly local society was in a number of instances rotten from the inside and criminally exploited by those who were also thoughly amoral. Does anyone ask themselves why local police / social services in many cases held such negative POVs regards the victims? One acknowledges the local social enviornment must have also corrupted police / social services attitudes which was totally unprofessional contributing to the collapse of social order in some areas.

I have just tested positive for Covid, though I had symptoms for some days prior. Here in Oz one is required to register if testing positive from a RAT Test. I have cancer (high risk with Covid) so the process automatically trigered a response. Bear in mind it's a Sunday, within a few hours I was contacted by a specialist who recommended I consider anti viral drug treatment. The drugs (Paxlovid) provide an 80% effective protection from severe illness / death if undertaken within five days of symptoms if already vaccinated. The team arranged couriering the drugs to my home. I tell this story as many are obviously unware of the risks associated with Covid for prople around them, with their childish boasts of i'm not going to wear a mask and so on.

There has been far more deaths attributed to Covid 19, than from the flu during the current pandemic. Plus 'long Covid' which my daughter in the UK has suffered from for the past twelve months needing repeated hospitalisations..

Yep, my daughter in the UK has 'long Covid' which has hospitalised her a few times, plus requires constant monitoring.

Personally I consider deniers and conspiracy theorists "ignorant'; regretably there are plenty of them around.

A number of my wife's friends have also been infected by Covid in the last few weeks, none of them were feeling better after a few days, in fact one is still ill after twelve days. Unfortunately my wife is still very sick. Here in Oz people are being hospitalised, with a current average of approx 50 deaths a day nationally. Here in Queensland, after the borders were opened, thousands are testing positve very day. If the gods are on my side I won't test positive. If positive, due to my cancer, I will required some specialised IV drugs treatment. IMO Covid is currently being underestimated, hopefully matters will significantly improve in the coming months as anti viral drug treatment for Covid becomes more generally available, though I won't hold my breath for the low paid Thai population.

My wife here in Oz has been infected by Covid for the past two days. I can assure you she's having a nasty experience. Unfortuneately too many people are still rather ignorant of the effects of Covid and consequences of infection.

Interesting, though not an activity I would engage. One assumes police will intervene at some point 'cause as far as I understand getting stoned in public is illegal and subject to three months in prison. Didn't know Thais produce hashish.

That's expensive, seriously doubt many will be buying from official outlets at that price

Rohingya are not recognised as citizens by the Bengladesh government, they are detained indefinately in refugee camps - many of whom are Stateless as their citizenship has been revoked by Myanmar dictatorship.

They would be unable to claim asylum if resident in Myanmar.

Can anyone advise availability / cost of Lantus for treatment of diabetes Type 2. Thanks

Not knowing age of parents, have a look at the visa below to ascertain if suitable. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/parent-103

Info at links below, be aware visa processing times are very lenghty. Cost of visa application is AUS$6010.00 and non refundable https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/aged-parent-804 https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/family-visa-processing-priorities EDIT: I disagree with the poster above, if you can fill out forms, you can apply yourself, no need for an Agent, as completion guidance is provided with the application doco.

You don't think Oz assets are monitoring PRC for intelligence e.g. submarine tapping under sea cables,

Labor will be fine with border security, it would be political suicide otherwise. Morrison made a huge error of judgement with the Soloman Islands. Also totally screwed up by letting off the corporate world for ripping off the tax payer for more than $30 billion for Covid support. Let alone the submarine contracts which were a massively expensive fiasco as well as other Defence purchases.

Multiple referendums failed to get over the line for a Republic☺️ perhaps Labor will have another try...

Originally spelt 'labour', but changed to 'labor' in 1912 to try and differentiate from British Empire association. With usual meanings it's spelt 'labour', 'colour' etc in Australia

Morrison was 'tough' on China by way of rehtoric, but didn't actually do anything meaningful other than increase Defence spending so Oz could fire a few more missiles than before against a nuclear armed PRC.

Murdoch press and some others were so obvious with their support of Morrison it was laughable, so much so I believe it was a turn off. Clive Palmer (UAP) and One Nation also contributed to the demise of Morrison - why people vote for them is, IMO, stupidity.

Morrison has just announced he has conceded to Labor.

There would be a reason why Ukraine has held back on full on attacks on Russian territory, to date such attacks have been very limited. Perhaps there are secret conditions applied to the supply of miltary assets to the Ukraine. At this stage Russia has not declared war, if they do so I imagine the war fighting will intensify.

IMO for Ukraine to brazenly target assets within Russian territory would be a strategic error of judgement. Can't quantify, but the impression I get is Russia has yet to deploy overwhelming military power (excluding nuclear) why this is; don't know.