news.com.au · Friday 10 April 2026
Friends of a man allegedly murdered by his mother told a court he was kept isolated and barred from seeing them, with his mother reportedly saying she did not want a 'vegetable' in her home.
Every inquiry into a death like this finds the same thing — isolation visible to friends, invisible to every institution paid to notice. We have disability services, carer support frameworks, mandatory reporting obligations, and somehow a man's mates could see what the system couldn't. The architecture of care is magnificent on paper. On the ground it's a pamphlet nobody reads and a hotline nobody answers.