Instead the department official “went on about how people shouldn’t be leaving their homes and how people shouldn’t be watching foreign news: ‘They should be watching Australian news.’ theguardian.com/australia-news…
.@amona_hassab raised concerns with a department official in March: “I made the suggestions and he said in quite a patronising way: ‘Do you actually believe people would listen to those or comply if we were to put up posters saying you should be 1.5 metres apart?'"
Pandemic or not, public housing residents regularly struggle to get their concerns addressed. When you combine the class element and racism, this is what people are up against.
