Housing NSW now 'partnering' public guardian

According to Housing NSW's Draft Disability Action Plan 2009-2013, the public housing landlord is now working in partnership with the Office of the Protective Commissioner (OPC)/Office of Protective Guardian(OPG). Anyone who has had a relative taken away from them by either of these two sinister bodies knows what a shocking experience it is, to have the life of their loved one controlled totally by the state. Housing NSW is now saying that this partnership will 'ensure that when tenancies are at risk, OPC/OPG are able to intervene early to provide assistance'. This is most alarming news, particularly in view of the fact that Housing NSW appears to be able to obtain medical/psychiatric reports on its clients without their knowledge or permission. And to phone its clients' doctors and put pressure on them in regard to a tenant if he or she is not doing as they are told by the DOH. And it does not stop there. The OPG/OFT has recently been merged with the NSW Public Trustee which suggests that anyone who has assigned it Power of Attorney to protect themselves from the OPG/OFT had better think again.