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They're building the penthouse suite with all the luxuries you could imagine, but the foundation is rotting away and, if anything, becoming more ignored rather than increasingly important.

It lays bare that their motivation is blanket surveillance for their own political ends and nothing to do with protecting children in the slightest.

Social Services are one of the most consistently underfunded and under-resources arms of government.

Australia has recently had to "increase the bar" at which mandatory reporting is required because the resources don't exist to even consider investigation of cases where the child's life isn't in immediate danger.

It's gross, but it seems politics around the world has found it's shared water level, and that level is happy with exploiting exploited children.




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