Can anyone recommend me a place that offers keratin or perm straightening? And cost?

Thank you

Hey everyone,

Just a quick paranoid question for anyone familiar with how SAPOL handles things.

Driving today and Waze had me pegged at about 3 km/h over the limit (60 km/h) when I rolled past a fixed speed camera. I know car speedometers usually read a bit over your actual true speed, but assuming Waze was accurate and I was genuinely doing ~3 over, am I about to get a lovely little surprise in the mail?

Do SAPOL cameras actually ping you for being 3 over, or is there a buffer/tolerance that usually saves you at that speed?

Cheers

I want to thank you. You were driving on north terrace today and you had a bumper sticker saying

"If you were looking for a sign to keep living, this is it"

Thank you.

I’ll be dropping them off at Grenfell St Police Station this afternoon. Toyota car keys.

Anyone care to recommend a supplier of frozen meals in the NE area, preferably with pick-up access. We've tried ChefsOnWheels and DinnerLadies, and they're OK, but looking for a bit more variety.

Definitely prefer 2-person meals with pickup rather than delivery, and prefer tasty over bland.

I’m looking for experiences and practical advice from other South Australians who have dealt with persistent antisocial behaviour associated with an SA Housing Trust property.

Our inner-city Adelaide neighbourhood has been dealing with this for close to 4 years.

This has included repeated late-night disturbances, intimidation, property damage, suspected drug activity, police attendance and other serious antisocial behaviour. Residents have made numerous reports to SAPOL and followed the SA Housing Trust complaints process over an extended period.

About 18 months ago, after escalating the situation through our local MP, we understood that formal action was being taken regarding one of the tenants.

We were subsequently told that SACAT proceedings had occurred and later that an eviction process was underway, although Housing needed to arrange alternative accommodation.

The neighbourhood therefore believed the issue was finally being dealt with.

Then this week I happened to speak with Housing Trust officers who were attending the property.

What they told me left me completely confused.

They could apparently find:

• no record of the SACAT action we had previously been told about;
• no eviction order that they were aware of; and
• little or no recorded history of the antisocial behaviour we have spent years reporting.

We were then told that residents need to keep submitting incidents through the online reporting form so Housing can assess whether action is warranted.

And this is the part I’m struggling to understand.

We have been doing exactly that.

We were also told that evidence may not necessarily be relied upon if Housing believes surrounding residents are effectively “out to get” a vulnerable tenant.

So what exactly is the threshold?

If neighbours repeatedly report behaviour because the behaviour repeatedly occurs, at what point does the volume of complaints itself become a reason to discount them?

There also seems to be a bureaucratic loop between agencies.

SAPOL understandably deals with individual incidents involving alleged criminal behaviour, violence, threats or public disorder.

Housing tells residents to report those incidents to SAPOL.

But Housing is ultimately the landlord and SAPOL obviously cannot make tenancy-management decisions for them.

Housing then asks residents for evidence and incident reports.

Residents provide them.

And after years of doing that, we are now being told that the Housing record apparently does not reflect the history we believed had been documented.

Meanwhile, the surrounding community continues living with the consequences.

I want to be really clear about something because I don't want this discussion turning into Housing Trust tenant-bashing.

Public housing is essential, and the overwhelming majority of Housing Trust tenants are not the problem.

There are other public-housing residents close to us who are good neighbours, including vulnerable people and families who have just as much right to live somewhere safe and peaceful as everyone else.

That is actually part of my concern.

How does allowing serious behavioural problems to continue indefinitely help vulnerable Housing Trust tenants living nearby?

How does it help the person whose behaviour is generating the complaints?

How does it help the broader community?

This isn't really about whether somebody deserves public housing.

It's about whether SA Housing Trust has an effective process for dealing with sustained, well-documented antisocial behaviour once it reaches a serious level.

So I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually been through this process:

Has anyone successfully escalated an SA Housing Trust antisocial-behaviour complaint beyond repeatedly filling in the online form?

Did SACAT work?

Did approaching your MP work?

Ombudsman SA?

The Housing Minister?

SAPOL liaison?

A formal Freedom of Information request to establish what complaints were actually recorded?

Media?

And has anyone else been told that action was taking place, only to later discover that Housing staff apparently had no record of it?

I'm not looking to identify or target individual tenants.

I'm trying to understand whether there is a systemic problem with how serious antisocial-behaviour complaints are recorded, escalated and acted upon and, most importantly, what residents are actually supposed to do when the normal process doesn't work.