Over 1,000 Territorians gave responded to the Government’s matching people to available jobs, expressing a desire to go fruit picking. This change of attitude to an occupation that has been shunned and assigned to backpackers during past years is amazing. Hopefully, the value of such work will remain post this dreadful virus.

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For TAL to discontinue insuring doctors against COVID-19 risk is reprehensible. This insurer states on the web, “at TAL we’re dedicated to supporting you and your family when life leaves its mark”. Some dedication, when our doctors are out there trying to save our community – and in all probability TAL having to pay out on others who might otherwise succumb to this virus.

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Overseas students like the one featured in the front page story of “The Weekend Australian” who admit to flouting social distance rules should have their student visas torn up. They should be deported and denied future entry into Australia. They are just uncaring b……s who don’t give a whit about the country that has accepted them into studentship.

They epitomise the social fever increasingly gripping this country, that they are owed by the Australia and the world.