Inquiry into the provision and regulation of supported accommodation in Queensland
Submission No: 54
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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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Hello, I'm and I'm staying at the here in and I'd like
to tell a litle story. I’m 54 years old and I’ve lived in. I’ve lived in one other support supported accommodaƟon in and that was terrible. This is much, much nicer and safer, basically
a nightmare at . It was very depressing and it wasn't nice at all. This place is excellent
and it has its problems and it could always improve. There are a few things that that could be improved around here. Maybe some security because there are things that happen at night. Certain people act up and it would be nice to have more of a secure more, more of a presence, maybe a official security guard would be a good idea. That be that that makes people feel a lot beter. Make me feel beter if there was someone who was actually a private contractor, someone who actually was qualified. These guys do their best, but they’re not they’re not qualified. They, they, they, they’re they try but that that doesn’t give me much comfort because you never know who comes and goes in this place. People can come off the street and they could be dangerous and.
Again, I'll menƟon my name. I'm . . I'm a Canadian born dual
ciƟzen. My email address is actually I’ll give my phone number because I don’t really like to hand out my email address my phone. My phone number is and I reside in like I said at I’ll menƟon quickly the last place I stayed it was called It was terrible. I was atacked by a man with a criminal past violent person and it was -ridiculous and that was the main driving force for me to get out of there it was just wasn’t safe there so I’m much happier here. I feel more secure, even though no nowhere is perfect and I’ve been here nine months and I hope to stay. I’m no I’m in no rush to stay unless there’s something that goes wrong back home. Someone is sick or some emergency otherwise I’m happy here.
I’d like to say that quite happy here there are just a few litle problems here, maybe not problems. Just a few things that would help a fan, for instance, if this place was supply people with. just a basic fan that would be that would be nice. It gets quite warm in the rooms and other than that?. Like I menƟoned maybe some security extra security would be helpful and maybe a few extra trips for people that aren’t on the NDIS because it seems a litle unfair that if you’re not on the NDIS is you can’t really be included?. I’m prety independent, but it’s sƟll be nice to have some excursions for people that are not on that support system. Otherwise, I’m prety happy and I’m blessed. I’m grateful for this place
and I do my best to get along with everyone
share this informaƟon. Very happy public, please. and ■So youhas beenhave myfantasƟc,permission.by the way, and I'm happy to
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