I don't hear much talk about what the supermarket warehouse inventories are holding, but I suspect they are getting low, Sco-Mo will act after his next Hawaiian holiday, never underestimate haw far king useless these politicians are, the hoarders certainly don't !

Certainly has got worse in the last couple of days, and the silence about warehouse stocks is ominous. this reminds me of people with an unruly dog that never responds to the owners commands, Sco Mo is the "owner", the hoarders are the dog. The leash will have to come out soon, or there will be riots.

What if the Sky/2GB ''paid to say dumb stuff' types are wrong and the experts are right and people might be facing 3-6 months isolation, and possibly several rounds of isolation with a family of 5 or 6? How much stuff do you need?

The stupid part about this is we're not running short on any food or grocery item. Theres plenty of everything to go around.

The problem is the supply system is not set up for Australians to suddenly start buying six months worth of groceries in one day! They are struggling to get the stuff from the warehouses to the stores and the shelves stacked .

The best thing I can think of is to get rid of the local government restrictions on when heavy vehicles can operate in their area. Let the delivery trucks go 24/7 and put on more shelf stackers. People will calm down if they see the shelves full .Hopefully!

Yes its been a snowballing effect. People go to their supermarket to buy milk or something, see the empty shelves everywhere and get in a panic! It's also showing the effect of social media. My normally very sensible daughter rang me up yesterday in a panic saying theyre going to lock down Sydney . You have to come home or you'll be stuck there ( we're down the south coast at the moment). Where did she get this information? Facebook! I' glad the PM put that rumour to be.

I thought it was a gig economy, whatever that is.

Most choose to live in cities which do have many advantages over rural areas e.g. entertainment, public transport etc.
Most country people live there because it's affordable or they farm so my question is why should the latter be disadvantaged in tough times, particularly when it's not they who were stockpiling? I say were not because some are now being forced by the influx of non locals

Good old Gloria, there is little doubt that crises bring out the best and worst in people. Unfortunately, the gubmint should have prepared for this early on with rationing programs that are ready to implement. It is obvious that there is no contingency planning for a pandemic, despite it being a known possibility.

Doubt Gloria will get too many helpers. Based on what i saw this morning you would be lucky to make $2 per hour under that offer.

Peter Dutton threatening to land on profiteers like a ton of bricks, it will be like the old song by Laura Branigan…..

"Gloria, Gloria, I think they got your number"

Or would be, if Canberra wasn't full of blow-hards.

The feds can't, or won't. stop fraudsters posing as ATO, AFP, NBN, Telstra, major banks etc, in phone scams, that they would act against profiteers I will believe when I see it.

What a lot of people will run out of, and quickly, is money. A large proportion of the population do not have the ability to withstand sustained lack of income. Sco-Mo & co. no doubt busy on much greater "stimulus" measures.

The Mayor of Canterbury Bankstown council has blasted thieves who have robbed libraries, public centres and the aquatic centre of their toilet paper.

There has been an alarming increase in the amount of toilet paper going missing from 160 council-run facilities in the last month. 

we went swimming at Coogee, today...it was pretty busy and no-one seemed to be distancing themselves. In fact, everyone we talked to said they weren't in the least worried. Then we bussed back to Coles, Randwick, where there was hardly anyone (less than two dozen) and some of the shelves actually had a lot of stock on them, including the meat section and eggs. We grabbed two nice pieces of steak to freeze for later (we have a cat who won't eat tinned or dry food), a tray of lamb loin chops and a dozen eggs.