![]() ![]() "It's a possibility for change, but I suppose the Russian sceptic in me says, we'll miss this opportunity. "I think COVID has made inequality clearer to see for people from different classes," she says. "My father wasn't well enough to come to the phone," she says.Įlena knows even people in a steady financial position won't be immune from the emotional toll of this pandemic.Īnd despite the rhetoric from leaders, she dosen't feel like NSW is battling the virus as one. She was informed a week ago that her parents back home in Russia had contracted coronavirus and were in isolation. A year ago today, Sydney emerged from its longest lockdown after the government lost control of the Delta outbreak more than 100 days earlier. It does feel unfair to see people going to Bondi Beach without a mask," he says.įor Elena, even as the financial pressures ease, new problems arise. Still, he's just glad he has a job to go to after his two older brothers lost their roles in construction and retail. "Every day there's roughly 12,000 items we're pushing out," Jamshid says. While the diligent worker sustained a back injury from lifting so many heavy boxes during recent sales, his employer took care of his medical treatment so he could return to work. Jamshid also works four days a week packing deliveries at a warehouse, where shipments have been busier than ever during lockdown. "I'm still a few hundred dollars down but maybe someone needs this more."Įarlier this month, the ABC revealed the federal government's official online COVID-19 information, which comes in more than 60 languages, had not been updated for more than eight weeks. "Now I'll be able to start buying food at supermarkets a bit more, so maybe this will be my last box this week," she says. 'From 6pm today all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into lockdown,' said Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales state, of the two-week restrictions. She's welcomed the government topping up welfare payments by $200 for those who have lost more than eight hours' work due to the lockdown. Sydney extends Covid-19 lockdown to entire city: State govt. When she lost her ride to cheap food, she began relying on emergency food boxes from Addi Road to make sure she could pay rent on her one-bedroom apartment.Īt the time, she was unable to access the federal government's COVID-19 disaster payment for lost income as she received Centrelink payments already. "One friend has a disability so she'd drive us to the food pantry, and I'd do all the lifting of the groceries, another could help with meals, and I'd do child minding in exchange." An outbreak which started on June 16 with a single limousine driver has now claimed the lives of more than 360 people in NSW and put millions of Australians into lockdown. "The singles bubble doesn't work for mothers like us, one person can't do everything," she says. For 100 days, families and friends have been separated, businesses forced shut and people have lost their livelihoods across Greater Sydney. Elena doesn't drive so when the Russian migrant separated from her partner in 2018, she started to rely on a network of other single mothers.
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