In addition to its overall negative impact on the Australian
economy, the COVID-19 crisis has also seen opportunistic
individuals disingenuously attempting to rely on the current
environment to avoid their legal obligations in circumstances which
do not genuinely warrant them doing so.
This type of conduct has in part been facilitated by the
unprecedented nature of many of the temporary relief measures
recommended by government or mandated by State and Federal
Parliaments, together with the urgency with which they were
announced or introduced. People have sought to take advantage of
the confusion surrounding entitlements to relief measures, the
processes associated with implementing them, and the many untested
loopholes.
