Well on Thursday in Canberra, when we had 5 cases all connected to Melbourne, and the people had been all over Canberra before they were finally locked down, I lined up for sushi in Manuka. There are signs everywhere saying 1.5m please. Most of the queue behaved - except for the two young mothers with 4 children who stood so close behind me that they were constantly bumping my handbag. I glared at them and they moved back maybe 30 cm. Made no attempt to control their children, who wove their way in and out of the line, and ignored several direct requests to keep distance. The shop itself had a sign permitting only 2 people at a time. You guessed it, when it was my turn, and the other space for 1 was free, in came all 6 of them. The shop staff did nothing about it. Although in fairness the approx 10 yo did say something like "mum we can't all go in at once". The mother just said "don't be annoying, come on now". I felt pretty angry about it, but short of walking away, I don't really know what I could have done.
Same for me @Pushka. I have a valuable contract with a large company in SA, I live in Canberra, and we were just finalising the work program for 2020 when the virus hit. I'd say there will be no work for me there this year.
Can you come and iso? Worth it? We also have work with ANU for Sept . Hmmm.
I just had a similar experience in IKEA five minutes ago. Dad stood on the x but teenage kids just stood wherever. I kept moving on. I agree we need to say something but like road rage you just don’t know the fall out.
Yes for sure. My 90 yo father-in-law relies on the rental from a commercial property for his income. His tenant is a church based charity that runs a food bank/discounted food shop for the disadvantaged. FIL has been charging them below market rental for 7 years, out of sympathy with their aims. Their current 5 year lease expires end of August. They have now demanded 25% reduction, 25% deferral in rent for 2 years. They are refusing to sign a new lease. However, they have told us that they are not eligible for job keeper (which is the trigger for those reductions) as their turnover is NOT down by the paltry 15% that applies to charities, and I don't see how their business could be suffering given the state of the economy in regional QLD - I'm pretty sure there is a big demand for their services. They are just taking a recently bereaved old man to the cleaners without any care for how he can afford to live. Just owning this property (from which he previously ran his car parts business) is enough to rule him out of the pension on assets test, and the real estate agent says there is no real chance of selling the property given the state of the local market. He is in a very hard place. They should be ashamed of themselves. I wish I could name them.
I stand corrected.....Melbourne might get Stage 4 restrictions.....according to ABC Covid live blog of Vic Premier at press conference today.
I feel your pain @Austman.
We are also in Canberra. We have a small office there. Our tenant vacated at the end of January, having given the required notice in November. Due to bushfire smoke, and othervarious reasons, we were slow getting it advertised - and then, COVID. So we have an untenanted property (luckily with no loan), little chance of getting a tenant, and still have to pay the massive rates that ACT govt charges because we are not covered by their scheme either. Arghhhhh.And sometimes landlords fall in the cracks for what assistance there is. We have a serviced apartment with Accor/Manta and have had our rent reduced 70%. Now the ACT government is giving land tax rebates to landlords who give reductions to residential tenants and rates reductions to landlords who give rent reductions to commercial tenants, but we don’t meet either scheme. They are taking every cent of the pitiful rent we get each month in rates, water rates and land tax. What can you do except suck it up and cut living expenses to the bone, along with many others in worse circumstances.
Funny I went to twitter just after reading your post and this was the first tweet.
They need to start fining businesses for not controlling people, as they are doing in Sydney. Our useless government is still wringing it’s hands and saying they will have to fine businesses if they continue to flout the rules. Just fine one or two, publicise it and shops will get more aggressive. At one level I can see why people have become complacent as we had an easy run, but they need to realise it’s important now
To be honest I'm not sure with all the changes whether I would even be eligible to enter SA - it's to deliver training, so not really earth shatteringly important to anyone except me and my bank manager! And the company itself, an Aussie subsidiary of a large global firm, is being very very cautious about its own staff and me in terms of health consequences. I just hope they will still need the training in 2021 and maybe I will get to do it then. If you come to ANU in Sept, PM me and we can meet up!
You said today and in the country. So you actually have no data for today then and it just your guess.
they don’t give this data parcelled up.
Good news for ACT...is there an explanation for 400 in iso?
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