Why do we still have no toilet paper on supermarket shelves for our regular, non-hoarding shop? Will we ever have an adequate answer to the question “why toilet paper”? Coronavirus is not a disease of the bowels.
NSW recorded the smallest daily increase in COVID-19 cases since 19 March. Forty eight new cases for a state total of 2,734 and still 21 deaths. The national total increased by 102 to 6010 with now 50 deaths. World figures show 1,433,553 cases and 82,184 deaths. Trump is blaming WHO, announcing a withdrawal of financial support for the international health agency and forgetting when he began to listen to their expert advice.
Parliament returned today specifically to pass legislation for the government’s AUD 130 billion Job-keeper funding package. Ideology was said to be set aside in the interests of protecting our nation’s sovereignty. Trawling through the media static provokes two questions:
What is an essential worker? If ScoMo says it is anyone with a job then what is the value of the defining and distinguishable label of essential?
How much do you need to live on? Need we revisit the 1907 Harvester Judgement that led to the basic wage and determine, with fresh 2020 vision, how much is needed for two parents and two or more children to live an adequate existence? Or do we just redefine poverty?
Awesomely Astute 