Scanning the media each week however, it is becoming apparent that villages are increasingly subject to theft and with it assault.Operators and residents need to review security plans.

As an example, this week a 93-year-old village resident in Dubbo, NSW, had a credit card stolen during the night.

The magistrate described the theft as “contemptible and disgusting” when sentencing the 24-year-old man who received the stolen card from another man to buy drugs.