Inquiry into the provision and regulation of supported accommodation in Queensland
Submission No: 47
Submitted by: fF (submitted by Queenslanders with Disability Network) Publication:
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Submitter Comments:
This is a transcript of an audio submission received by the Community Support and Services Commitee. It is not a strictly verbaƟm record, but rather an accurate record generated by the commitee secretariat. The commitee has determined not to publish parts of the transcript from the submission including: idenƟfying informaƟon of the submiter and/or their residence; material not relevant to the inquiry; and words that may be considered offensive.
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Hi there, my name is . I'm a 68-year-old male living in Australia. I live at at
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Contact details: . I’m blind in one eye.
Street address: I live at a facility called .
I’m happy for my submission to be public. I’m happy for my name to be public.
I've lived at for about 13 months now. I have a lovely caring lady named She is a diabeƟc
nurse navigator working for and she discovered and managed to
get me transported here from a facility called . I’m a Kiwi. I’ve been in Australia since 1979.
And what other places have you lived?
I’ve travelled around New Zealand and Australia. I like fishing, camping. I do like my comforts too. Good cheers and bidding.
And I think you said before that you previously lived at and I think you said .
that’s up near Caboolture, yeah. It’s a fairly large establishment with a heŌy guess about 100 residents. I forget the bathing and cleaning faciliƟes hmm it must have been shared. Oh yeah, we had a shed toilet because my neighbour used to piss on the seat all the Ɵme. I was conƟnually chasing him with a mop. You could never actually get it in the toilet hmmm it was always on the floor or the seat or both. His name was. Then I’m allowed to say it but I understand but they do a bit of pollinaƟng of fruit and vegetables and also good tucker for birds and lizards. That’s about it .
I like living here.
I do have a couple of gripes to get up to the dining room we’ve got to share a road they can’t seem to put a footpath in for us pedestrians, which to me seems a reasonable request. I don’t think anyone’s ever been run over but surely they could put a footpath in for us because we’re all supposed to be ambulatory. There’s a few of us that use walking sƟcks and wheelie walkers but everybody manages to get to the dining room. No one goes, oh they do have room service. I don’t know how to access that. I don’t think I need to