Melbournian, can you please provide evidence to support your claims on capital punishment? I have found a Parliamentary study showing 52% support the death penalty for deadly acts of terrorism, but 67% are opposed for domestic murder offences. I’m not sure this is can be used to support the view that they majority’ is wrong here?
We have to also consider that for the vast majority of people there has been no economic impact from covid. And for many people, Jobkeeper and the enhanced Jobseeker was actually an economic gain.
You omitted:
'... Swap the crime to drug offences committed overseas, and there is suddenly less opposition to capital punishment. When a
January 2015 Morgan poll asked respondents: ‘In Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore and some other countries, the penalty for drug trafficking is death. If an Australian is convicted of trafficking drugs in another country and sentenced to death, in your opinion, should the penalty be carried out or not?’, 52 percent answered ‘yes’, and 48 percent ‘no’...'
I could include other more controversial areas of public policy but it's OT so that's the last I'll say about this.
For the vast majority no economic (adverse) impact from covid? Huge effect though: hundreds of thousands lost their job, others - especially young people in tourism and hospitality - had significant reductions in hours. JobKeeper just can't continue forever, and when it's reduced/abolished by April 2021 we'll see a truer picture as there are many 'life support' small businesses that may then fold. Our national GDP reduced by seven per cent in the latest quarter: we haven't been hit overall as badly as woke New Zealand, but ask someone who runs a restaurant here and they may be less sanguine.
JobKeeper, successful as it may have been, was rorted by some businesses (a union claims QF was one), and is no substitute for the satisfaction of 'real' job and contributing to a business, or on one's own, or to social goals.
Maybe ask a sacked pilot (well paid as many would suggest they are) or even better a flight attendant or baggage handler who was sacked or chose to leave whether they've suffered economically. Many never expected to suddenly lose a job that they enjoyed. We have at least one well known contributor on AFF who worked for an airline and who said it's been hard for them to find another position 'outside', and unless things have altered, they haven't yet succeeded.