During the pandemic LIFE urges all organisations promoting these demands to come together in a common effort to achieve them. 

  • Leave on full pay for isolation, testing, lockdowns and vaccination. 
  • Job Keeper paid directly to workers or Disaster payment to be increased to full pay, with expanded eligibility.
  • Extend and expand the eviction ban, outlaw repossessions and provide rent and mortgage amnesty for the length of the pandemic.
  • Forgiveness of all rental/mortgage debts accrued due to the impacts of the pandemic.
  • Empty dwellings and vacant hotel rooms to be decontaminated and made available to people unable to isolate or quarantine at home, including homeless and displaced people, women and children escaping domestic violence. 
  • Free quarantine for returning travellers and workers.
  • For COVID safe workplaces, training, PPE, transparent information, workers’ plans for covid safety, enforcement of right to refuse unsafe work, election of WHS reps in all workplaces.
  • Urgent expansion of education and training programs in front line health care provision, and expansion of the publicly employed health workforce.
  • The supply of vaccinations and other vital resources needed to prevent and treat COVID should not be in control of private interests and treated as public goods to provide holistic responses in the interest of public health. 
  • For a health and welfare led response, not a militarised response.