Duncan Storrar "Overwhelmed" By $56,000 Crowdfunding Campaign, Despite Increased Media Scrutiny

Instant Q&A icon Duncan Storrar has been flooded with support by well-wishers of the internet, who have pledged more than $56,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to buy him a toaster.

According to the ABC, Storrar is now considering using some of the money to buy a toaster or oven for a shelter.

Samuel Fawcett, the man behind the viral GoFundMe campaign, revealed on ABC radio that Storrar – reportedly “overwhelmed that so many people cared for him” - is planning on putting the rest of the money away, “so his kids can get covered for uniforms [and] computers at school”.

Storrar is also planning on taking his daughters, aged 8 and 6, on a holiday.

The attention has its drawbacks, however. The Australian today shared a report in which Storrar’s 20-year-old son, Aztec Major, claimed “he doesn’t deserve” the money, citing a history of drug use.

At age 17, Major moved in with Storrar.

“I guess I wanted to get to know him but it was while I was living with him, he was using drugs, and I got addicted with him and that was the start of my downward ­spiral,” Major said of their time together.

Though Storrer did not respond to The Australian's request for comment, he told the ABC he "gave up smoking weed years ago" and had never drunk alcohol.

Of course, as good-hearted and well-intentioned as the GoFundMe account is, it’s not a fix-all salve for the realities of tax inequality that Storrar brought to the national conversation on Q&A; not for him, and not for the many others like him.

Issues such as drug and alcohol abuse are also sometimes the very result of inequality.

His is a voice that often goes unrepresented in these debates, and the rare pleasure of a lengthy election period is the ability to hear from Australians from all walks of life.

So, here’s his original question to Assistant Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer on the Government’s proposed tax breaks for those earning more than $80,000 a year.

Photo: ABC.