skeleton in room

I read Robert's blog asde (www.schilt.info/blog) - a fellow volunteer. It was a story from the SMH of a skelton found in a room in a block of flats in Sydney. There were no suspicious circumstances -the person had lived alone and had not been missed. Fellow tenants blamed the Housing Authority - "They don't give a s..t". The tendency to blame a government authority or church or anybody else for social welfare issues does not happen here, that I have noticed, with the wontok system which puts looking after its own as its role in life. Wontoks pick up other wontoks if they have a car. If they have a bike, then the bike is for other wontoks to use. If they have a washing machine, then other wontoks use it. The system has its faults in that the productive people are socially obliged to look after the unproductive. One very good mate left PNG because the wontok system was taking advantage of him. It does have its faults in the way nepotism and old school tie has its faults in the West. Doreen Jones my aide at Wicannia called me to the window once to see a ute driving past with a washing machine on it. "See that she said, they buy one machine and take it around. As for me, my machine stays in my house and washes my clothes." As for the commentator who said "They don't give a s..t", it seems he didn't either otherwise he would have noticed the person's missing and done something about it himself. It is easier to blame "they".