Long queues formed outside Centrelink offices around the country today as the economic affects of the COVID-19 health crisis cut deep.
After claiming the online Jobseeker system had failed because of a malicious cyber attack, the Minister for Government Services, Stuart Robert, had to retract, admitting that the system was simply overloaded.
These images were taken outside of the Centrelink offices in Surry Hills and Marrickville. People had begun lining up at dawn. The average wait, in intermittent light rain, was around 5 hours.
Part of an ongoing photographic series, 'COVID-19 Diaries'.
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