Share on Twitter NSW has baulked at defining "essential work" during Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown with workers urged to use their "common sense" to determine who can and can't leave home. "It is so, so difficult to have a precise rule for every single thing," Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Tuesday. READ MORE "That's why we rely on common sense (and why) we rely on people to respect the intent of the health orders as well as the letter of the health orders." One of the 89 new cases reported on Tuesday in NSW was a Sydney painter who left lockdown to work on a hospital construction site in Goulburn, 200km southwest of Sydney.