Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
2018-11-06 Daily Xml

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Shop Trading Hours

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:42): Supplementary arising: I just wanted to confirm that the Treasurer hasn't received any correspondence from the SDA regarding the submission regarding the extended shop trading hours.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:43): Unless something has arrived in the last 24 or 48 hours; I have seen lots of tweets and public statements, but in terms of correspondence I haven't. Certainly, whenever the cut-off date was for responses to the consultation and for the week or so afterwards, the shoppies union didn't respond to our request for comment on Christmas trading hours. Up until the last 48 hours I still hadn't received any correspondence from my very good friend Josh Peak or indeed any of the other union bosses that represent the shoppies union. As I said, directly through them and their public statements and through their mouthpieces in the Labor Party, I am well aware of the position of the shoppies union on trading hours legislation.