Several large supermarkets found in breach of the Shop Trading Hours Act 1977 have erected permanent walls inside their stores, or reconfigured display cases, fridges and freezers, to reduce their floor space to comply with the law. In total, 11 supermarkets across South Australia had been given a deadline of yesterday to reduce their floor area…
The Hon Paul Fletcher MP The Hon Rob Lucas MLC Minister for Families and Social Services Treasurer The Liberal National Government today announced a commitment of up to $5 million for a social impact investment initiative to support young people in South Australia leaving out of-home care. Federal Minister for Families and Social…
Australians face falling property prices, higher rents, potential job losses and reduced state revenue under Federal Labor’s ‘destructive’ economic agenda, with three State Treasurers joining forces to demand Bill Shorten reveal the true impact of his election policies on their states. In a joint letter to Mr Shorten today, SA Treasurer Rob Lucas, New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet…
South Australia has defied the national trend and soared to its highest level of small and medium business confidence on record, with SMEs backing the Marshall Government’s positive economic reforms – including the abolition of payroll tax for all small businesses. The landmark results – revealed in the March Quarter 2019 Sensis Business Index – show SA small and…
South Australians have voted with their feet in favour of Boxing Day trade in the ’burbs, with figures showing retail sales across suburban Adelaide almost trebling (an increase of 192%) those of the public holiday last year. The figures – contained in an Advanced Analytics report commissioned by the Government of Commonwealth Bank transactions over the Christmas holiday…
Nyrstar, after discussions with its largest shareholder Trafigura – the global commodity trading company which has entered into a conditional restructuring arrangement that may lead to it becoming the majority owner of the Port Pirie smelter – has formally advised the State Government it will make a $42.3 million payment this month. The commitment follows a meeting in Adelaide today…
In an overwhelming show of support for the deregulation of shop trading hours, thousands of South Australians have voted with their feet and hopped into shops right across Adelaide – the first time all city and suburban retailers have been allowed to trade on Easter Monday in SA. Treasurer Rob Lucas – who granted a…
A vocal opponent of the Marshall Government’s bid to reform SA’s ‘silly, antiquated’ shop trading laws has asked Treasurer Rob Lucas for a permanent Ministerial exemption to open one of his supermarkets outside prescribed trading hours, to avoid having to reduce its floor area to comply with the law. Treasurer Rob Lucas said Managing Director…
Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that ex union boss Peter Malinauskas and current shoppies union bosses were like economic ostriches burying their heads in the sand over the retail industry and shop trading hours reform. After yesterday’s sad announcement of the closure of Radio Rentals stores, shoppies union boss Josh Peak was calling on the State Government…
The State Government has announced it has formed a panel of five leading legal, industrial and workplace employment professionals to oversee a merit-based selection process for the appointment of Commissioners to the SA Employment Tribunal (SAET). Treasurer Rob Lucas said the expert panel, to be chaired by former Senior Deputy President of the Fair Work…