Gday lads
>NSW, Victoria move to comprehensive shutdown of non-essential services amid coronavirus pandemic
abc.net.au
>Western Australia, South Australia to close borders in response to coronavirus pandemic
abc.net.au
>Government's $66 billion coronavirus stimulus package seeks to keep businesses afloat and workers employed
abc.net.au
>Australia is easing superannuation access for those worst-hit by coronavirus. But can we afford it?
theguardian.com
whats for dinner lads
Are our forefathers smiling down upon this once great nation?
I just noticed the fucking window.
My fucking sides.
Two.
If they close down Tafe I can finally move out of the city and back in with my Mother in the middle of the forest.
I am fucking praying for this. I can return to the Varg life for a time.
Anyone know where I can get some toilet paper from?
Steak, baked potatoes, rice, salad. Wife Baking cookies right now, just back from taking kids to play some footy... Do I send them to school tomorrow, frens?
Why shit down everything, but still send our kids to a germ pit for 6 hours a day? Keeping schools open defeats locking everything else down.
Remember when this man, who set up strategies to ensure that Australia was the only country in the world that made it through the Global Financial Crisis completely intact, and who promised a nationwide broadband network with super-fast speeds that would cost approximately 31 billion U.S. dollars, was stabbed in the proverbial back by his own political party - after which his political party lost the election to a government that offered a heavily "watered down" national broadband internet network...
... and, 10 years later, the National Broadband Network Corporation working on this inferior network, had to be "bailed out" by the same government that offered the "watered down" version, to the tune of over 14 billion U.S. dollars - causing the single-worst infrastructure disaster in this nation's history - a project that has now blown out to more than 35 billion U.S. dollars while still unfinished...
... while a significant proportion of households in rural areas have to put up with approximately 5 Mbit connections and frequent disruptions (with a permanent latency of about 0.6 seconds because the technology that NBN Co. is utilizing for rural residents is a satellite)?
gizmodo.com.au
Pepperidge Farm remembers.