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Petrol, Rates Double Whammy Could Hit Retailers

19 June 2008

RETAILERS are facing a couple of years of lukewarm sales, but are unlikely to suffer a freeze, with buoyant employment, wages and tax cuts set to drive further growth in sales in 2008-09, Access Economics predicts... read full story

Workers, It's Your Sacrifice

4 June 2008

MORRIS IEMMA and Michael Costa have staked the state's economic future on the electricity sell-off, a huge round of infrastructure spending and capping public sector wages in a pro-business, anti-union state budget... read full story