Tragically for at least 20 innocent victims, six of whom lost their lives, Cauchi was on the loose in their community, off his meds and out of his mind. It wasn't a terrorist attack he committed. It was simply a mass thrill killing.
One which shines the spotlight on the diabolical lack of mental health facilities right across Australia, and especially in Cauchi's native Queensland.
In Queensland, they don't have them anymore.
An austerity mad former state government decided to shut them all down. Cauchi should have been in one, in Queensland. He should not have been in Bondi junction in Sydney, a free man.
A free man with manic schizophrenia who even terrified his own parents, repeatedly failed to take the medication to manage his mental illness and was seeking meet ups online with other crazies who were into guns and knives like him.
In Queensland and abroad, every state government, in the wake of this terrible "mass murder", have to make the recreation and recommissioning of mental health facilities the highest of priorities, in the broadest public interest imaginable.
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