Aboriginal man's death 'preventable'

And all the Magistrate can come up with is;
Well bugger the system, where is the responsibility of whoever had the care of the patient in hand.

. You do not just leave elderly people to fend for themselves.
. You do not just leave sick or disabled people to fend for themselves.

And you certainly would not in your right mind dump someone belonging to both those categories IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE NT WHERE NO DOUBT Temperatures would have been over 30 degrees.

I am sickened by that and the Magistrate also needs to hang her head in shame for her whimish limp finding.

I reckon an email to the Magistrates Court and Rudds office is going to be on the way.

Both done and if you want to send a message to the PM, you can do it via his web page - Prime Minister of Australia - Contact your Prime Minister and my messages if you need a sample:

Dear Kevin,

I would hardly be what one might call a supporter of the Labor Party or your leadership but that is another matter.

The death article: Aboriginal man's death 'preventable'

My own appreciation post: Elderly Gent just dumped to DIE!

And my letter to the NT Chief Magistrate:

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'' Hello Sally,

I've just read of this article in ninemsn reporting on the findings of one your magistrates, Sue Oliver in respect to an elderly aboriginal man being left to die a terrible lonely death at an outback airstrip.

I think it should be said to Sue, that well may the system be stuffed, but SOMEONE is always accountable within a system, be it a transport carer, their management if contact was made or the pilot if no carer was aboard, the pilots manager, SOMEONE left an incapacitated elderly man to DIE.

I have not long returned from a trip to the NT and the NW of WA and sure, I know there are problems in dealing with aboriginal people that many southern folk never hear of, don't want to or cannot or will not appreciate, but you do not just leave someone to DIE - Was there any water left with him for instance?

For if you have not been out into the outback, away from Darwin too much, the temperatures would likely be exceeding 30C and people working in those areas or with people from those areas should know that better than what I would.

I am sickened by this and will see what Rudd has to say in the context of his apology, that in my book being a hollow political stunt - three months after being elected and Jenny whatshername had hardly been near any indigenous communities and now that she has dipped the toe, all of a sudden things are looking different.

This type of situation does not help.

My forum thread - Elderly Gent just dumped to DIE!

And in comparison, a doctor (Patel) you may have read referred to as Dr. Death by the media has been extradited back to Australia to face manslaughter charges because of deaths of patients where he had been the surgeon.

Dr. Patel had been Chief Surgeon at a Bundaberg Queensland hospital and it would seem he was not the best of surgeons and outcomes have not been what you would hope, but his patients would not have been the first to die because of poor medical skills, and what of his supervision?

But there in the NT, we have an elderly man quite deliberately left in a situation where anyone but the totally stupid could not have perceived that his life could be in danger.

And then your Sue Oliver - is she fit to serve on a justice bench?''
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We do see far too too much of the system is to blame and rarely that people within the system are held accountable.

Kevin, if as I have said to Sally your apology is not to be that hollow political stunt, if you have a task force to address developing better welfare for indigenous people, then you, Jenny Macklin (now remember her name) need to make sure that it is not just the system that is looked foul upon.

WHO LEFT SOMEONE TO DIE?

And it sure was not the system.

Thankyou for the opportunity to correspond with your office.

I'm sick reading this article. I didn't know why there are people who are heartless.

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