Petrol, Rates Double Whammy Could Hit Retailers

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.

Workers, It's Your Sacrifice

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.