“It makes me feel like a failure, there’s just a limit to what I can do.”
Sadler said losing the pandemic supplement would mean he and his family would return to a more difficult life.
“We go back to hunker in the bunker mode.
“We moved to Wagga, and what that meant was that if we sat at home, watched the telly, no Netflix, we could just exist. If nothing went wrong, we were fine. I could put food on the table.
“But that’s it. As soon as anything went wrong, or any bill came along, we were stuffed. It’s a constant feeling of dread, like you’re under the hammer.”