In many people's eyes, Australia has good security and social peace.
However, a recent official report has opened up a heavy topic in the context of Australia's Sunrise: in Australia, there are tens of thousands of people missing every year, thousands of people have never heard of, and even many of our Chinese neighbors. Could be missing in the next second.
Is Australia really not as safe as we think?
1. 38000 people go missing every year in Australia
The 30th Australian week of missing Persons, (NMPW), was held August 5-11, 2018, according to the Australian Federal Police website (AFP).
The campaign aims to sensitize people to the magnitude of the missing persons problem through case-by-case campaigns, so that community and media forces can play a key role in supporting the police search.
More than 38000 people are missing a year across Australia, up from 35000 a decade ago, according to (AFP), the Australian Federal Police Department. In Victoria alone, about 9000 people go missing every year.
The Australian police receive daily reports of hundreds of missing people, 98 percent of whom were found within a week, but 2600 are listed as long-term missing, who have been missing for at least three months.
2. The Chinese elderly are vulnerable to missing persons
It is worth noting that many of these long-term missing persons are elderly Chinese. An octogenarian in New South Wales has not returned home for nearly a year, according to a long-term missing list posted on the Federal Police's website.
Lin Yuliang, a Chinese-born elderly man, was last spotted around 8:00 on Sept. 15, 2017. He was leaving his residence in (Castle Hill), Fort Hill, Sydney. To this day, there has been no news in eleven months.
Lin Yuliang is described as the standard Asian-American face, about 175 cm tall, of thin build, with short gray-white hair and brown pupils, and Alzheimer's disease.
The last time he appeared, he was wearing a black pullover and black trousers. Lin's family missed him so much that he allegedly met some friends on the day of his disappearance, not unusual at the time, and the old man chatted with his friends for a while.
But since then, he has never heard from him.
After the incident, Lin Youliang's family received strong support from the community and local Chinese organizations, and volunteers searched many local urban areas, parks and possible locations where the elderly might appear, although none of them could be found. But Lin Yuliang's family is very moved to everyone's help.
In a February report in the Daily Telegraph, police did not abandon the search for Mr. Lam, but they suspected the 80-year-old man was dead and was preparing to refer the case to the state coroner.
There are many similar cases of loss. According to the Australian Federal Police website (AFP) reported that, Eileen Fahey's son Anthony Fahey disappeared in 2013, so far no news.
He and his family felt so much after attending the week of missing Persons, his wife, Ms. Fahey, said in an interview: "We're going to sell our house now, but we're worried what Anthony will do if he doesn't find us when he comes home." It bothers us very much. "
In these lost cases, the victims are mostly the elderly and children. With the growth of immigrant population, more and more Chinese families move to Australia. Most of the adults in these families are too busy to look after the elderly and children in their homes because they are busy at work. Children are protected by school institutions, and empty nests are left alone.
Most of these elderly Chinese do not speak English, and there are communication barriers when they travel alone. In foreign countries, the strange environment left them at a loss, and it was easy to lose their way. Some of them even suffer from Alzheimer's disease, once lost, not only can not guarantee their lives, but also difficult to find them.
3. How do you prevent the loss of your family?
In fact, in the new state where the Chinese congregate, government can provide a special "old man's loss-proof card", a program called Next of Kin that provides free data-networking key rings to elderly people applying for protection, with a unique ID number inscribed on it. Name, family member and doctor contact information and home address.
With this, no matter whether the old man holds Australian nationality or whether he is familiar with English or not, he can get help through this special key chain in time to avoid all kinds of possible dangers!
The application is also very simple: you can go to the right web site: http://www.cityofSydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/103369/NSW-Police-next-of-kin-registration-form.pdf to fill out a special application form. And submit the application as required;
Or, if you can't fill it out online, you can also go to the local police station to fill in the form for the key chain.
More importantly, this magic key chain to prevent the loss of the elderly is free to claim! Regardless of the nationality of the elderly, and regardless of the nationality of the children, as long as there is a need for the elderly, all free!
However, if the state you live in does not issue Next of Kin keychains, there are other ways!
It is suggested that Chinese friends in Australia can make a Chinese and English card for their elderly family. Attach photos of the old man, name and urgent contact details of the family, write words for help.
In addition, there are a lot of old people on the market to buy anti-loss bracelets, most of these bracelets support GPS positioning, you can find your family at any time after use. Prevention in the first place, is always better than the elderly lost and then worry about looking for it!
Finally, the Australian Federal Police Department called on everyone to do their best to help the missing persons.
If you recognize any missing person described on the public registry www.missingpersons.gov.au, or any of the 2600 long-term missing persons, please contact Crime Stoppers, at 1800 333,000. What you reach out is probably the only hand that can help them go home!